The Sunday Crossword

September 24, 2016 04:00 pm | Updated November 01, 2016 08:29 pm IST

Last week’s solution

Across

1 Pretend to be in charge in training (8)

5 Bird fluttering to cave (6)

9 Strike and call for riot (7)

10 Revel in constant cause (7)

11 Mark from piano teacher (4)

12 Supporter’s complaint about name used by player (10)

14 Left lusty one rambling forebodingly (12)

17 Silent comedian in tank sure to be in trouble (6,6)

20 Panic resolved by old boy with a cocktail (4,6)

21 Shrill greeting heard (4)

23 Study source behind revolutionary scrap (7)

24 Pal idly tossed leaf on pond (4,3)

25 Present extremes of sadly unorthodox doctrine (6)

26 Unaware, I admit, about drama (8)

Down

1 Standard cuts in vegetables (8)

2 Artist coming up with sensible framework (8)

3 Rush meal and run (4)

4 Prime minister’s people gossip in shelter after start of campaign (7,6)

6 Parts of poem about a ruinous palace (10)

7 Bad-tempered cur damaged enclosure (6)

8 Attempt to engage man with love for idea (6)

10 Signal at end of race varied following delay (9,4)

13 United in hunting mostly small marine creatures (3,7)

15 Sad poet I hail, missing lake in country (8)

16 Not wildly popular, cut by editor promptly (2,3,3)

18 Talk quietly in spot in front of church (6)

19 Fun playing tune out of order (6)

22 Singer in national tournament (4)

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