WEEKEND CROSSWORD

Across

1 Way to eat with just the bare minimum (4,4,2,5)

9 Unmanly fellow extracts money before work (7)

10 Nurture arrangement that is more false (7)

11 Remove mail from a French member (5)

12 A rat line I removed among other things (5,4)

13 Railman organising it to be covered in thin plates (7)

14 Gave it a whirl for instance during distribution of seed (7)

16 Dog Samuel, you were overdrawn (7)

19 Rosy, ring and tell about shrub (7)

21 A wet feral sort of aquatic creature (5,4)

23 Group performing without safety device (5)

24 Call oaf having money from Asian country (7)

25 High-level plain? (7)

26 Act without partners (4,11)

Down

1 Well-known final speech later may be proved wrong (6,4,5)

2 Nothing I left on part of hand from tropical tree (3,4)

3 Cost of silence? (4,5)

4 Crab went round unit more quickly (7)

5 Property manager found fungus in starting-place (7)

6 Thomas takes up alternative form of transport (5)

7 Normally drink only second half (7)

8 Rigid speech regulation that makes no allowances? (4-3-4,4)

15 Tactics using violence (9)

17 Master money with nearly everything relating to morning service (7)

18 Ruled it out as being less concentrated (7)

19 Representative has first removed pair of spectacles for massage (7)

20 Girl eager to provide material (7)

22 Equip with fittings that are more expensive (3,2)