The Scotsman

WEEKEND CROSSWORD

- By Derek Allen

ACROSS

1 Give more details of French number Pole revised (7) 5 Make a mistake while dancing perhaps (7)

9 Part of the economy one chooses to be in? (9,6)

10 No expression of surprise from old shipbuilde­r (4) 11 Negotiated hilly state in a furtive way (10)

13 Innkeeper from the Loire (8) 14 Eve not travelling round in northeast Italy (6) 16 Disprove arbiter with acceptable note (6)

18 Win takeaway? (5,3) 21 Constance and Edward included most of film that clashed (10) 22 In awe I rushed round dam (4) 24 Where Nanny voted by mistake occasional­ly (5,3,3,4) 25 Reached end of term and became an adult (7)

26 Still in former baby’s outfit (7)

DOWN

1 County hires out the best very rich food (10,5)

2 Brave Valerie with one six-footer (7)

3 The Parisian accepts a new way (4)

4 Repartee developing at start of Christmas song (4-4) 5 Holiday that’s a signal for disaster (6)

6 Wee lover! (10)

7 Birds, one in island race with rodents (7)

8 Cry of repentance coming from political meetings (5,10)

12 One setting the table? One working on track (10)

15 Mean dance or game (8) 17 Cooler in car perhaps (3,4) 19 On strike go beyond right level (7)

20 Aircraftsm­an on line and in agreement (6)

23 Man led dynamicall­y in part (4)

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