Crossword

MORE CROSSWORDS IN TABLOID!

ACROSS

1 Minor reprimand as result of make-up misapplication? (4,2,3,5)

9 Warned treadle is unreliable (7)

10 Flood when scoundrel punctures canoe on vacation (7)

11 Once more, make love after wine (4)

12 Everything improved at centre managed by multi-talented person (3-7)

14 Was eating female monarch’s biscuits (6)

15 Contend encyclopedia contains bias (8)

17 Country men with guns surrounded by barking hounds (8)

18 Article in Paris South, antique still on the market (6)

21 Spy boss expressed hesitation infiltrating a military group by Eastern Front (10) 22 Surge of water with hail (4) 24 Obvious identification is required in organised activity (7)

25 Celebrity, initially learner, in English broadcasts making cakes (7)

26 Silly act, that man ran off with bride (7-7)

DOWN

1 Bird box with commotion beneath (7)

2 Meat in seafood he cooked is extremely radical (5,2,4,4)

3 Aware of filling used in oriental dumpling (4)

4 Tango casually, holding daughter, being a bit squiffy (6)

5 Guided from base and cut around back of fort (8)

6 Ringing plastic surgeon about dad’s rear and hip (10)

7 Appreciative response from resistance with independent government dividing country (8,7)

8 Chance upon fish shop (6) 13 Dodgy woman in German university fencing diamonds fast (10)

16 He painted male garbed at first in orderly attire (8) 17 Check what might be required for picnic? (6) 19 Prepared to take away silver in horse competition on day (7) 20 Cut short promotion on book hastily, perhaps (6) 23 Claim place on middle of seat (4)