Alfie's No.2
Several answers have a common theme.
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ACROSS
..7...Pacify fifth member when taking in French summer. (7) ..8...Sweet dancer. (7) 10...Used to make 25 fibre depression, one in account. (6) 11...Note (again) that corer is in the red. (2-6) 12...Sink everything after false start. (4) 13...Calligraphy pips Henman! (10) 14...Franglais worries Channel Frog. (5-6) 19...Insulated flask? Rubbish! (Holds temperature though). (9) 22 24.Punctual employee with 17D connection. (4,6) 23...Pine container, type of 5. (4-4) 24...see 22 25...Synthetic fellow, cross with European. (3-4) 26...Delay 'til mage arrives. (4,3) |
DOWN
..1...Star face, variety of 22 24. (7) ..2...Buddhist school accepts very quiet priest in dirigible. (8) ..3...Put ace in container. (6) ..4...Bearing type of 5. (8) ..5...22 24s about hair. ..6...To offer more than the value worries VID bore. (7) ..9...Type of 5 relation. (11) 15...Tuscan artist takes a lone road. (8) 16...Drain tube to provide an article inside. (8) 17...Temporal disturbance of anchor at the beginning of Lent. (7) 18...A moment on a wobbly base for aquatic protozoa. (7) 20...Administration, for example, in hoar frost. (6) 21...Swindle Aitken assortment. (4,2) |