WEEKEND CROSSWORD
Across
1 Levy, chief city makes profit on nails, say (7,5,3)
9 Exploit fellow pinta deliverer (7) 10 Improperly alarm one with a fever (7)
11 Canal disposing of many a litre? (10)
12 Hurry and hide (4)
14 Turned down pages of book scruffily like this? (3-5)
15 One’s life’s work (6)
17 Look in such an awkward slovenly gait (6)
18 Private weapon? (5,3)
21 Eat cold cut (4)
22 Same doctor organising parades (10)
24 Dislodge from powerful position from a French steed (7)
25 I enter engineers’ entrance in town (7)
26 Place where prices are low (7,8)
Down
1 Exercise authority over naval officer unhesitatingly (7)
2 How tug-of-war team is getting on
well (7,8)
3 Moderation of mood over article on church (10)
4 Stretch Glen arranged at that time (8)
5 Think highly of, these days, swampy ground (6)
6 Flower of Egypt (4)
7 Contest without a single runner (5-6,4)
8 Wrong agent receiving part of serviceman’s pay (1-6)
13 Apparatus, it’s used to send message to mother going over ravine (3,7)
16 Stop at zone where normal access is prevented (2-2,4)
17 Be overwhelmed by scum cub reproduced (7)
19 Mid-morning climb just beginning (7)
20 Novel I composed about social gathering (4-2)
23 She’s in with the fair maids (4)