crYPTic crossword

ACROSS

6 Half cook Inuit food, not rotten, but not in a good state (3,2,9) 9 It’s hard to find blemish on

church (6) 10 Put off collecting container,

wine container (8) 11 It’s grand if I broadcast but it’s

humiliating (5,3) 13 Former U.S. president nearly

received a shock (6) 15 Host’s throwing Women’s

Institute out (6) 17 Initially formal, stiff and unresponsive (6) 19 Unnamed wild flower? (6) 20 Royal put at risk touring

area (8) 22 Extraordinary nun mixed up

in fraud (8) 24 House doctor in heart of

Africa making lozenges (6) 26 Pen-friend comes running,

showing composure (8,2,4)

DOWN

1 Painter more precise, I hear,

about old choker (3,11) 2 Prison disturbances on the

rise? Nothing’s stolen (4) 3 Start and finish hurt (6) 4 Pedagogue’s time in Ecuador

improved (8) 5 Simpleton’s last place of learning? (4) 7 The cause of most deaths in

the Neolithic, say? (3,3) 8 Boy removed D-Day bombs?

No way! (4,2,4,4) 12 Source of Russian river in the

countryside (5) 14 Best to avoid cooking sugar

beet — it’s boring (5) 16 It provides sustenance, even

when Mike drops in (8) 18 Some strolled in glen and

wooded valley (6) 21 Decontaminate conifer over

in hill in France (6) 23 English boy lifted trunk (4) 25 Silence for god? (4)