CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Ostentatiously fashionable – and obviously in a hurry (7) 4. Put lace out for what Juliet was, Romeo wasn’t (7) 8. Part of a windmill to put to sea (4) 9. He made wagons with raw gin perhaps (10) 11. It might take rice to make one think of love (6) 12. One on board will go straight to the gold (8) 14. Peevish impatience makes panel cute (9) 15. Use block capitals to do what lithographer does (5) 17. Sounding like an oboe in the tree, dying (5) 18. Geometric shape one might trace with Glen (9) 19. He’s abandoned religion, as poet at variance (8) 21. With mashed leek, non-drinker might watch it boil (6) 23. Hindu music, little cake, ragged boy! (10) 24. Bank system using iron implant (4) 25. Outside short of ‘X’ – it’s everlasting (7) 26. Financial restriction one might get juice out of! (7)
DOWN
1. Diana’s fury at dog’s disease (9) 2. What one didn’t mean to say – slid out of one’s mouth? (4,2,3,6) 3. What one aims for is a gaol-break (4) 4. Self-assurance secret is told in (10) 5. What boxer fights for could be super (5) 6. Industrial action without warning: didn’t one hit hear thunder? (9,6) 7. To get in a rut when up at uni he guides the undergraduate (5) 10. Be unable to find way to 8 in my circumstances (6) 13. Not appreciative of fun, let a rug be thrown over it (10) 15. Instrumentalist who might take the field? (6) 16. So: here for being embraced by half the team! (9) 19. Say one will get older, being re-entered (5) 20. Time one finishes off Shakespearean Athenian (5) 22. One-sided inclination AB is capable of (4)