CROSSWORD number 1280

ACROSS:

4. Old comic book army character (3-4)

7. Recall what the prude said re: botanical term for fleshy fruit centre with seed-stone! (5)

8. To stain or attempt to destroy someone’s reputation (5)

9. Last drink goes to your head in bed? (8)

10. The employees of a company (5)

13. An organ of sight (3)

15. One could say, it’s ‘reel’ entertainment? (6)

16. The season of heat? (6)

17. Plumbing device for a water outlet (3)

19. France’s longest river (5)

23. A novice from the start? (8)

24. Description of a stile would be “___ over a fence” (5)

25. Explode like a volcano (5)

26. A name formally used in legal procedures for a fictitious or unidentified person (4-3)

DOWN:

1. Exactly the same (9)

2. Sudden increase in electricity voltage? (5)

3. One hundred of these make one Rand (5)

4. Mist from hot water vapour sounds erotic (6)

5. On an unspecified occasion (5)

6. Separation of the husks of grain from the seed could result in a little teasing? (5)

11. Top class and of A1 quality (5-4)

12. Water tortoise (8)

13. Consume by mouth? (3)

14. In short extrasensory perception (1-1-1)

18. Tree-lined road (6)

20. Surpass (5)

21. The rich man in the parable of Lazarus (5)

22. Front part of an animal’s muzzle (5)

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