CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 It’s wrong to hiss at our French friends (5)

Polo’s other name (5) Bridge game (7)

A Caledonian, and royal (5) Sweet money (5) Obvious distress around April the fifth (5)

This officer’s said to be a bit of a nut (7)

Little boy’s letter to the Standard (3) Simpleton’s school? (4) Nab tearing the seat out of a car (6)

Toss a stew in the bin (5) Varlet maybe, but will go far (6)

It means there’s something bad about golf (4)

24 A sunny note (3)

25 Good enough for a halo (7) 26 Posts malpositioned call all be pulled out (5)

Start turning east, perhaps, from choice (5)

She’s a copper (5) Optional mystery man on the side (7)

We have one way of being bizarre (5)

Required to be terribly sad about a bit of a joke (5)

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Master Jock can be called lucky (6)

Correct amount of tea in a spoon (4-2)

Thus on Tuesday he drinks a lot (3)

All the same it’s not bubbly (5) He wrote more about deception (7)

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26 Soon to be nameless (4) Being young, they’re leggy (6) Floral ring around the capital of Thailand (5)

They can’t fail to form a crest (5)

Not far from the pub (5) Can such cards get one into debt? (5)

Tony’s ruined, flat broke (5) A titan, but bookish (5) Ted’s new to this part of London (4,3)

Go round distributing a treat out of love (6)

Only jibes, but they make sense outright (6)

An oblique stroke (6) Paste spoilt by too much water (5)

Being famous, one gets a bit of 28 a stare (4) It’sroundinshape,always(3)