Kropotkin 1079

Across

1. Replete around end of feast it’s said (6)

9. A leader, not female (then very competent) needed? That can be attained (10)

10. US navy cadet, not very bright, retreating before Dr Death appears (10)

11. In which pieces one will do ever so little in part (4)

12. Public squares in old Rome where plants were left out (4)

14. Complain continually in brief fight? Put the boot in! (9)

18. Make sweets from tree fruit: many people like Victor Mature go after them (9,6)

19. Shortcoming – pound missing – it’s counterfeit anyway! (9)

20. Beef eater reportedly chewing up oxen (4) 22. Young woman left one part in

Equus (4)

23. They serve small beers – you get crook after them? (5,5)

25. Where in Auckland there is clay with grass on it (10)

26. For kinky sex try this bone scraper (6)

Down

2. What Joyce practised shows characteristic feature – alternatively is Mike showing? (10)

3. First-rate toys (4)

4. A rule in old department store: “You Need Gold Coin” (5)

5. Portaloos possibly featured in

Charlie Michael (T S Eliot novel) (8,7)

6. Growing thing found right inside marshy land (4)

7. Gentleness shown by chap with some animal fat due to be cooked (10)

8. Physician from Lucerne needing oxygen (6)

13. A Dutchman recorded a hit: A Southern Man (4,6)

15. This diminutive man of straw? That stacked up (4)

16. Go into Capitol entrance initially, then accede to the Presidency (4,6)

17. Notice best seen upside down?? (4)

19. I pull up one member of the Plant Kingdom (6)

21. Women leaving one old kingdom for another (5)

23. Vice Squad’s Centre policeman: A.S. Bard (4)

24. Quarrel over which version of The Last Post to use (4)