Crossword MORE CROSSWORDS IN TABLOID!

ACROSS

1 Men with no end of cash getting crowns (4)

3 Back victory with Germany’s renewed energy (6,4)

9 Time nobody finishes early? (4)

10 Sack vet – that’s for keeping the temperature down (10)

11 Palestine ordered to release an ancient letter (7)

13 What a carpenter may make of a good deal? (7)

14 Report of couple likely to take offence producing fruit? (7,4)

18 Tough newspaper editor threatened by severe competition (4-7)

21 One’s so covering miles in such a strip of land (7)

22 Father has unusual items offering interest (7)

23 Caiaphas, perhaps – strangely he is right to keep quiet (4,6)

24 Country post may see liberal moving to the west (4)

25 Lead, say in hard rock? (5,5) 26 Give way, leaving space deferentially (4)

DOWN

1 Offer incentives after prisoner’s scorn (8)

2 Rebuilt hip bistro must ignore small bar (8)

4 English team lose, having no heart for enforced absence abroad (5)

5 Miss alarm concerning student caught in leak (9) 6 Stevedores to cut rows about welcoming king and Queen (4,7) 7 I drink after church freezes (4,2) 8 Study suppressing on-target earnings is mean (6) 12 Doctor may keep oath as reward for one’s labour (4-4,3) 15 Rent subject to Sky – or new division in England (9) 16 Reckon European nation must absorb one million (8) 17 The man’s in a club that’s tacky (8)

19 Rowing crew beginning to hurry just a fraction (6) 20 Family will go from mistaking terrible shame (6) 22 Secretary hugging tree that was official in Turkey (5)