Weekend crossword

ACROSS 1 Eastern boat in the morning goes

through bridge (6)

4 Pound invested in drinks, causing bad

crashes (53)

9 Old foreign noblemen, cunning with

fists (9)

11 Khan, perhaps, batting once more (5) 12 Body of troops will give philosopher no

backing (7)

13 Cigar the leading man’s got in bed (7) 14 Offer payments for services around the heather, showing sympathetic nature (6, 8)

16 How a drunk progresses, or a

muchtransferred footballer? (4, 4, 2, 4) 20 Tantalise endlessly at dance and cafe

(34)

21 Quiver, and compete to strangle spoilt

child (7)

23 Ruffle leaders of France badly (5) 24 Arriving, jostling or pulling (7, 2) 25 Tear ornamental fabric with speed (8) 26 Seanymph has row back before

plunging in (6) DOWN 1 Overwhelms Cornwall etc with current

measures (6)

2 Order up tea or coffee (5) 3 Humanshaped robot Dad constructed

with iron (7)

5 Fantasic sum involved with civil feast,

e.g., a season of opera (5, 8)

6 Father seen in posh mineral spring

(34)

7 Plain that’s unloved encircling the Pole

(9) 8 Looks around the North at governing

bodies (7)

10 Congenial person, the sort to have

Russian vodka? (7, 6)

15 Come again reincarnated as one

morbidly selfcentred (9)

16 Obese Oriental, having flu badly, is

critical (7)

17 Academic little child comes in from the

sun (7)

18 Majestic transport soaring above tree

(7)

19 Primate, escorted around, cavorted (6) 22 Fish hang down, headless (5)