DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 Suit the co-operative to get ready for a burglary (4,3,5) 9 Carrying ticket inside plant opening (7)

10 Gangster has aims of developing love (7) 11 Exercise power on Earth through magic ring (5) 12 Find dance jolly (9) 13 Malay party holding number for departure (7) 15 For example, rubbish pit or exercise in selfindulgence? (3,4) 17 Relationship looks first class, in between heaving loins (7)

19 Storm was too darn disastrous (7)

21 Fails to cook enough when it’s anything less than deer (9)

23 Deserve to be back in retirement home (5) 24 Wine extraced from stainer (7)

25 Vegetable on equal footing with back legs (7) 26 Doling out attitude with STD? (4,8)

DOWN

1 Cancer sticks in the heart with melted macaroni (9) 2 Blemish in satin outfit (5) 3 Stayed out and about university during some of the week (7)

4 Sesame ordered open to receive last of the men in a group (2,5)

5 Indecent fashion of cool fur (3-6)

6 Loop of bouquet holds the centre of bloom (5)

7 Spring boiling tar on warlike city (6)

8 Ingratiate oneself with company before sentimentality lost its focus (4,2)

14 Taking up assorted roads with Crosby (9)

16 Change around the back ground (9)

17 Museum board to protect window (6)

18 Kind of sign alphabet linking Italian leader with Fascist (3-4)

19 Boozer turned up place for another heavy drinker (7) 20 Duck controversial topic of sea creatures (6)

22 Edit token elements as above (5)

23 Satellite circling around right pillock (5)