Weekend crossword 2039

ACROSS

1 Bein’ butterfingered I should be

served with plenty of butter (6) 4 Thought I would grab the magazine,

cutting out the Azed (8)

9 Return of the Spanish biter’s a

complication (6)

10 A member of the WI is tirin’ poor

father (8)

12 Leaders choose to cause revolution:

there’ll be the devil to pay! (5,4,4) 14 Laid roofing in a top hat? (5)

15 The morning one chased after a

moggy in a boat (9)

16 Lace at the window stirring? That’s

when the drama begins (7,2)

19 A baking composer drinks drop of tea

(5)

21 Foremost buttons sewn insecurely —

that’ll hit the headlines (54,4)

23 Illicit affair? Could be rueing it (8) 24 One of Shakespeare’s girls has her

design rejected (6)

25 Lauder record I got in station on

leaving (8)

26 Look closely at lease for very small

hole (6)

DOWN

1 Game to become a fixture — I’m tipped

for striker (10)

2 Cooler armour lands on celebrity’s mat

(34)

3 Mistreated, like a book with pictures

69 missing (34)

5 Everyman, for example, combines

virtue with sport (84)

6 Here are weapons for a horseman,

including one that’s French (34)

7 Our land is strewn with little knots (7) 8 Old bird has one party after another (4) 11 Misinterprets elements of rust in

motorway teacakes (12)

13 I’m a fan from the north so I sat

uneasily supporting Orient (10) 17 Disproving can make one tearful (7) 18 Being a worshipper makes fuss over

set of bells (7)

19 Sheep standing between British Rail

and railway’s source of beer (7) 20 Like a hot bath, Albert? The Marines

must come first (7)

22 Pelt — and keep out of sight (4)