WEE THINKER

Across

1 Spoil something with teeth with an outer layer of cake (8) 5 Accomplishment sounds like some distance (4) 9 Employment in circus agency (5) 10 Tom reportedly did some gardening at terminal (7) 11 Weed gets a bit of water, perhaps (4) 12 Team kiss jumper (4,4) 14 Dance perceived to be a puzzle (6) 15 Person moving herds beginning to direct car (6) 18 Applaud catch? Nonsense (8) 20 Vehicle strike follows termination of contract (4) 23 Place for an insult (3,4) 24 Were said to spin (5) 25 Got a couple to hide crisp pancake (4) 26 Musical composition composed in shop yard (8)

Down

1 Fashion knight for large bank (5) 2 Standing on hind legs, growing (7) 3 Goat species – nine exist in confinement (4) 4 Current company on road to agreement (6) 6 Call up first lady to accept the go-ahead (5) 7 Footslogger hears vandal on junction (7) 8 Race official in a state of agitation on a road (7) 13 Good French wine kept in stronghold (7) 14 Boy on vessel gains money prize (7) 16 Cunningly rig vote for Hitchcock film (7) 17 A punch misguided gets the belly (6) 19 Room at the top in cottage, initially (5) 21 Pity that foreign car has glossy finish (5) 22 Hands up for

exchange (4)