Crossword

MORE CROSSWORDS IN TABLOID!

ACROSS 4 Famous race with grand start? (8)

8 Creeps from Winchester (6) 9 Decorative wood was put round stylish bed (8) 10 Where one might take off songs about drink (8) 11 Young fliers, none with permits (6)

12 Aircraft startled your goat (8) 13 The old and so decrepit climbers might need these (8) 16 Reportedly stopped woman getting headscarf (8)

19 See drain in need of repair next to the kerb? (8)

21 Gold given to good revolutionary – that’s awkward (6) 23 Cowardly journalist showing signs of age (8)

24 Maria, so upset about second-class and first-class fare (8)

25 A film of lubricant? (6) 26 Worshipped graven image: i.e. I’d sold out (8)

DOWN

1 Very old article on wood, we hear (7)

2 Panel of people in charge of potato fries? (9)

3 Large source of food for bird (6)

4 Police HQ’s worst DC, Andy Lane, in trouble (3,8,4)

5 Well-suited little piece about island traditions? (8)

6 Winger seen in Scouse line-up (5)

7 Papa, in bother with Edward, took over (7)

14 Frank reveals information on Pikachu, say, when doctor leaves (9)

15 Something smelly and small irritates (8)

17 Frightened gangster, tooled up? (7)

18 Publicity with rhyme that’s poor (7)

20 Claim everything, for example, before end of marriage (6)

22 Girl in one of Noel’s songs (5)