CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1.

Have regard for the sceptre, anyhow (7)

4. Risk losing head in eastern part of the church (7)

8. Having broken chin, move very slowly (4)

9. Rig bare car out to put the shopping in it (7,3)

11. Headwear lifted to get at the engine (6)

12. How we rank it with woollies (8) 14. Reclining, rub cement into it (9) 15. Implore one to carry on a lawsuit (5)

17. Some forbidden activity to establish by law (5)

18. An example of the prints one makes, walking (9)

19. Hand the wine on for it to give privilege of entry (8)

21. Work out a way for it to be sieved (6)

23. They demonstrate the sport trees can provide (10) 24. Time served by a flier (4)

25. Turned to tread it out (7)

26. Coloured, or perhaps discoloured

(7) Down 1.

With rum, beer is needed to put one back in pocket (9)

2. It’s not the first stamp to be applied to it (6-5,4)

3. Amphibian that’s dished in the hole (4)

4. Or, no action can be taken about the crowning (10)

5. Siren call to alter later (5)

6. It brings the pictures home by wire (5,10)

7. Drink served up in the entire gallery (5)

10. The elm fashioned into armour for the head (6)

13. With holes to tear at, drop free

(10)

15. Soft colour to stick on end of wall (6)

16. Swollen seed didn’t burst (9) 19. Decorate room with mirror, say (5)

20. Pressed fold in a simple attitude (5)

22. The god of love who was angry and upset (4)