Monday 27 April

Across

1 Pretty shy hugging me at rear of school (6) 4 Get over arch, and one may make a bolt for it (8) 9 Relish oxygen brought by sudden wind (5) 10 Old Parliamentary radicals who told it to you straight? (9) 11 Deal-maker in pub, one taking a profit (9) 12 A brief experience of discrimination (5) 13 Lower tier seats filled first for this film? (4,2,3,3) 17 In isle grey tomb crumbling, typically romantic (3-5-4) 20 Have no argument with an Athenian amputee (5) 21 Missile landing in sniper’s lair: this tightest of squeaks? (9) 23 On journey, train isn’t moving (2,7) 24 Track down a very tiny amount (5) 25 Kubrick briefly portrayed Scottish patron (2,6) 26 Not simple, so restive (6)

Down

1 Budgie perhaps free in big cedar (4-4) 2 Swell breakfast item (8) 3 An idiot picked up sponge (5) 5 Brazen volte-face about poem, ‘Polecat’ (7,6) 6 People searching for these here but they lack concentration (9) 7 Reach the top of chest (6) 8 Hardy folk lived here in primarily wild county (6) 10 Hello again, rector: still not made a bishop? (4,4,2,3) 14 Ideas for a reform mentioned earlier (9) 15 New American widescreen system (8) 16 Cook breakfast, including coffee, getting insincere praise? (8) 18 Spoke of what one has in each arms (6) 19 Shrub and vegetable penetrated by decay (6) 22 Many times relent, though not at first (5)