Quick crossword - Scotland on Sunday 05/02/2012

Published on Sunday 5 February 2012 01:08

This week’s quick crossword puzzle...

Across

1 & 22 Down I gave out bags, containing books – 99 family copies (9,5)

8 & 14 Across Bomber rising unaccompanied and not straight (5,3)

9 “West Side Story” number is working in drunken surroundings (7)

11 Obtained meat in comic-book city (6)

12 More than one little girl is always consumed (7)

13 Communist love returned to banker (4)

14 See 8 Across

17 Note all contents of reviving drink (3)

18 Club in Rothesay offends Nationalist leaders (4)

21 Sport that is organised provides the answer (7)

23 Henry the First isn’t younger than the champion (6)

24 The baddie’s not well in “Ivan the Terrible”? (7)

25 Tell porkies, for example, about returning in Belgium (5)

26 Mark disappears when Simon Peter is forced to step in (9)

Down

2 Party individual meets literary heroine (5)

3 Hammered down a flaky denial (6)

4 Firm junction for a young napper? (3)

5 There’s no article about drink in foreign paper (2,5)

6 Food’s unusually tough and rubbery in the extreme (7)

7 Spoil mother’s new deal with a spread (9)

10 Male commercial leader (4)

12 Show weariness over excitement, right away in Edinburgh (9)

15 Gave up - and produced (7)

16 Learning about flowers and rock singers (7) I

19 Two soldiers feature in this musical (4)

20 Pour out two novices and come to the circus? (4,2)

22 See 1 Across

24 Some give treatment to James Herriot (3)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Across: 1 & 6 Down, Old habits die hard. 8, Evita. 9, Nuptial. 11, Within. 12, Parents. 13, Blur. 14, End. 17, Don. 18, Open. 21, Advance. 23, Isabel. 24, Several. 25, Niece. 26, Doddering.

Down: 2, Laura. 3, Hitmen. 4, Ill. 5, Seville. 6, See 1 Across. 7, Rain dance. 10, Alto. 12, Prescient. 15, Dowager. 16, Deleted. 19, Edge. 20, Career. 22, Chain. 24, Sad.