WEEKEND CROSS WORD
ACROSS
1 Like a leading runner or farmer could be (5,2,3,5) 9 Mince gent prepared becoming hard (9) 10 From Eden you start to be poverty-stricken (5) 11 Home team (5) 12 Croatiandog?(9) 13 Apparently Richard contributed to poem (5) 15 Tribe is cut out of the book (9) 17 Living for the day (9) 19 Witches try to leave city (5) 21 To a disgusting extent in a dead language (2,7) 23 Bedding down in the stable (5) 24 Resin some of the clientele misused (5) 25 Being blown about to happen (2,3,4) 26 Going for it at the baths? (6,3,6)
DOWN
1 Price on one’s head (4,5) 2 Hiker who could be a climber (7) 3 Not turning up with Georgia’s vehicle (5) 4 Diana transformed nymph (5) 5 Important meeting on plateau? (4-5) 6 Fanciful fast antic is fanciful (9) 7 Mournful linesman’s mood? (7) 8 Senior member as before has eastern money (5) 14 Body of Christians in service (9) 15 Robber removed clarinets (9) 16 Grains we had shortly, say, turned over club (4,5) 18 Fowl to feed itself will behave in a domineering way (7) 20 Article removed from this therapy interpretation (7) 21 Likely holding of French expert (5) 22 See head’s headgear (5) 23 Brief period of enchantment (5)