Weekend crossword
2032
ACROSS
1 Cigarette became kindling (6)
4 Save the wife a piece of pork (5,3) 9 Officer’s back in snug, dear (6) 10 Thirsts for mad talk in the Civil Service
(8)
12 Not a public oration at which one’s at
home (7,7)
14 Pay’s about nil, clear of all charges, for
carriage (9)
15 Composer’s unfinished meal (5) 16 Bequeaths not a pound for roofing
projects (5)
18 The mole is strangely supple (9) 20 Raising the hem in front first, an effect
of perspective (14)
23 Prior, devout, entertaining priest (8) 24 Eastern temple has trouble opening
westward (6)
25 Considered finds in salmon river should
be put back (8)
26 Thoroughly acquainted with stanza 500
(6)
DOWN
1 Visage control? Old Penny goes in for
makeup (46)
2 What the timorous might say boo to?
(7)
3 Fat one in trousers, colours (36) 5 Through with enterprise, perhaps (12) 6 Rambler’s half rose, half clover (5) 7 Calls round to have a meal (5,2)
8 Fully employed vehicle on end of trolley
(4) 11 Cloth hat firm has its place in the zoo
(75)
13 Duff gen breaks fresh ground in the
States (3,7)
15 New town’s theatre includes flat (9) 17 Not evil? Wrong — quite unrestrained
(7)
19 Sinister piece in game, headless,
American (7)
21 The pick of the tele I adapted (5)
22 I’m to be found in church, Sunday,
absorbed by the primate (4)