ACROSS
7 Give away free petrol around
start of December (3,4)
8 Locally, one
murderer secures hospital release (7)
10
After university, health worker’s son advances? That’s
doubtful (6)
11 Endlessly squandered
chance to become star (8)
12 Order a car
(4)
13 Old-fashioned equipment from
Sweden, very up-to-date in eleven
ten (5,5)
14 Good sieve needed by old
fool making drop scone (7-4)
19 Relating
to line demarcating similar dialect and to its logic, possibly
(10)
22 Dodgy dealer wants celebrity’s
backing (4)
23 Old Cape province
surprisingly retains king (8)
24 One
tucking into Japanese drink before beginning to improve their
bonsai landscaping (6)
25 Glibness shown
by fellow abandoning sin? (7)
26 Low-down
chap is common (7)
DOWN
1 Nancy’s first person to meet famous
orphan girl (7)
2 These days bandleader’s not against
showing muscle (8)
3 Take some piano lessons? It’s said in
admiration (2,4)
4 Time in a coma caused damage of
the body (8)
5 Sergei’s agreed restricting damage is
Hindu virtue (6)
6 Perhaps Zeppelin song’s fashionable
(7)
9 Pope settled here in Rome, supporting friend from a
long bygone age (as the Americans have it) (11)
15 Blow
cross up as part of entrance (8)
16 Joint found in one
capital or another (8)
17 Empress volunteers to carry
lethal substance (7)
18 In different life I’d love opera
(7)
20 Finely graded cement concrete is good to make one
(6)
21 Touring south, happen
upon a plant related to dahlia
(6)
