WH Crossword

ACROSS

1 Building again, but cutting corners perhaps (14)

9 Sink the vessel carrying coal (7)

10 I ring back about a note on someone who started a fire (7) 11 At, or about, on schedule (4) 12 The case for the prosecution? (10)

14 Stretch the melody (6)

15 Lay about may be omnipotent being (8)

17 Left accompanied by Miss Barrymore (8)

18 Dried up old bean fast approaching forty nine! (6) 21 Item often used at 25 (3, 7) 22 One bit of kitchen furniture (4)

24 Leak out hindered pond (7) 25 Eat item served on 21 now (7)

26 Very surprisingly, a number brake tightly (14)

DOWN

1 Falls back on seaside places (7)

2 One who hits back at shop lifter perhaps (15)

3 Record a little music (4)

4 Fish about right for the channel (6)

5 Only one way to do it (8) 6 Ordered to steal train, that’s a bit of a puzzle … (10) 7 … However, way might be found when sitting down (15) 8 Rate change on the railway main line (6)

13 A prince called in about this young lady (10)

16 Disengage cockney wife about 50 in London district (8) 17 Power given to the French to hurdle (6)

19 Let Tory group arrange for national gambling (7)

20 Girl who is out of breath (6) 23 I ask for a monkey (4)