CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Condition once, aspirating with difficulty (6,8) 9 Around middle of February pelt downhill on this (3,3) 10 Rebel agreed to differ about Tyneside, say (8) 11 Dirk repelling drunk

in quarrel (8) 13 Guide hears about

hotel make-over (6) 15 Vulgar new theory

advanced for love (6) 17 Church rector

nursing bad chest (6) 19 Fit in half of capital to

stop petition (6) 20 Large fellow in oil plant? The very one (8) 22 Law one ignored to obtain military supplies (8) 24 Rescuing Beaujolais perhaps kept in sink (6) 26 Hood frees worst off

here (8,6)

DOWN

1 Three car-makers arranged survey of consumers (6,8) 2 Seaweed extract consumed by Greta Garbo (4) 3 A foreign seabird’s

free (6) 4 Plot of new ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ not the last word (8) 5 Departing without

one award (4) 7 One replaces name of aniseed drink for a time (6) 8 Unsystematic detectives break frame (14) 12 Group of popular golfers played slowly (5) 14 Provided chap’s housing for sound equipment (2-3) 16 Almost nobody supports eminent classic western (4,4) 18 Go up and over small

church (6) 21 Not wearing as much

as 7? (6) 23 Standard in November or March originally (4) 25 Struggle with

perspective (4)

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