The Sunday Crossword

Last Week’s Solution

October 10, 2015 04:00 pm | Updated 04:00 pm IST

Across

1 Songbird in distance behind rubbish (9)

6 Club for spicy stuff (4)

8 Hopefully choose one film I name, last of trilogy (14)

10 Easy to control party and country, not hard (6)

11 First couple of riders trapped in gorge with a magnetic quality (8)

13 Inspector joining fight, far from young, being ridiculed (10)

15 Object to look after (4)

17 Work with a large gemstone (4)

18 Low tree man cultivated for fruit (10)

20 Framework in keel’s warped by weight (8)

21 Substitute’s story accepted by match official (6)

24 Unreal disaster involved in tale of adventure (8,6)

25 Rock, southern style (4)

26 Resign and endure melancholy (5,4)

Down

1 Stirring chorus we’d do with energy in band (7,5)

2 Volunteers climbing with muscular movement in roof space (5)

3 Routine following distribution of airmail (8)

4 Reportedly understands instinct (4)

5 Elevated man protecting number on retreat northward (10)

6 Inadequate part of wartime agreement (6)

7 Heavenly tea is prepared in small room (9)

9 Information about endless fervent love supplied in paradise (6,2,4)

12 Have a go at clues arranged in lists (10)

14 Frightening figure emerging from vehicle in moment before commotion (9)

16 Revised memoirs, omitting nothing, editor absorbed (8)

19 Support airman with yen to make bequest (6)

22 Elements of wild fashion that are even seen in area near Washington (5)

23 Cheese in buffet available (4)

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