ACROSS
1 Fruit extract in butter
served from the right is great (5)
4
Belligerent brush against farm worker
(9)
9 Rock groove from one playing behind
funky artist (9)
10 Provoke private
detective to question European (5)
11 Some
rapid development in urban setting shows how people make a big
difference? (6,9)
12 Order papers with
time rewritten as an afterthought results in failure
(8)
14 Ride of the Avenger
(5)
16 Shoot feral pigs without right
(5)
18 What Pepys was after daughter
became leader of Parliament. Keeper of queen and her colonies?
(8)
21 Ravishing belle, Phoebe, cuts fine
vision when seen from here (6,9)
23 Thanks
to the French crime’s run amok (5)
24
Mixture of iron, gallium, nickel and carbon in chemistry set,
perhaps (9)
25 The brilliance of many of
21’s discoveries? (9)
26 It’s in situ
dormer characteristic of this style (5)
DOWN
1 Club run by mothers
(6)
2 Joe with heart dropping about
well-to-do city opening with fanfare (7)
3
Ruled area depicted by line in stack of paper (5)
4 Object
after simple task becomes source of minor diversion?
(6,9)
5 Position in cabinet where plate on
its rim is damaged (11,4)
6 He values
one’s input to back up a very weak opening
(9)
7 Lock on a concealed opening to
archaic part of church (7)
8 Pattern
emerging from report of Asian’s demise
(3-4)
12 Vessel’s contents under pressure,
initially (3)
13 It’s due to lawyers the
police hold up what’s lawful (5,4)
15 Take
repast regularly (3)
16 Plans to introduce
yours truly to chess gone awry (7)
17
Dress right before beginning of tonight’s first-rate musical
(7)
19 Individual invested in market
index’s reversal fainted (7)
20 Sportsman
who borders on the extreme? (6)
22 Sense
of hearing works here (5)
