Crossword

MORE CROSSWORDS IN TABLOID!

ACROSS 1 Died – tombstone message makes little splash (4)

3 If gin flows, night should resolve family feud (2-8) 9 Silent star’s lost ring and dress (4)

10 Gracious foreign word for English instrument (3,7) 11 Spoilt brat under fire? (7) 13 Rodents that might afflict a freezing school bedroom? (7) 14 At sea, bosun’s torch toasted spring festival treat (3,5,3) 18 Rival prize crossword? (11) 21 Scots dance around Whitehall ministry convert (7) 22 Using piece of red rag, nervously put over challenge (2,5) 23 Former servicemen scrap with soldier over what one should pay? (10)

24 26 traitors to the Left? (4) 25 Takes flight desk shifts, adds getting the French on board (10) 26 Blue-eyed boy’s vow to marry by fifty (4)

DOWN

1 Heightened clash of brawling boxers, say (8)

2 Anger, having lost time for good soak (8)

4 Person in charge perhaps is not a single person (2,3)

5 Impossible to catch popular German car – tooted endlessly (9)

6 Noble with two fouls in game’s first quarter (4-7)

7 Of a type inclined to show urgency? (6)

8 After gossip, see that man’s tears (6)

12 An item of clothing twice worn by bounder for a spell (11)

15 Pretended to be excited with temperature dropping (9)

16 Russian plane, given ranking, went to land elsewhere (8)

17 Basic triangle ringing the changes (8)

19 Prepares item that may be first on and last off? (6)

20 Establish this person’s stance (6) 22 One piercing bird that used to go after Eric (5)