Weekend crossword - The Scotsman 11/02/2012

ACROSS

1 Scientific timer? (10,5)

9 Corrupt trainee inside to vary pitch of his speech (7)

10 Means of igniting that’s easier to carry (7)

11 A reluctant movement of invertebrate’s feeling organ (10)

12 Doctor gets round ban (4)

14 More colourful pirate excited about having been elected (8)

15 Reach part of spectacular river (6)

17 Split or stick (6)

18 Start with hesitation from platform (8)

21 Last word in Lamentations (4)

22 Fair target, milk containers on both ends of highway(7-3)

24 Stop his removal of teacher in ancient Greece (7)

25 Prophet found canal after second half of freeze (7)

26 Early business in electronics (7,8)

DOWN

1 Strengthened town area(5-2)

2 Is it disgusting to be armed with this? (9,6)

3 Article included by Victor and Eve becoming excessively lively (10)

4 In time, more impolite gatecrasher (8)

5 Like a milk deliverer who is at sea (6)

6 One might be barred from entering this enclosure (4)

7 Working in the dark? (2,3,5-5)

8 Kay, one artist, snookered at the centre during the singing (7)

13 Confusing Aunt Eva with our decorative style (3,7)

16 Emperor’s dilapidated monoplane did not start (8)

17 During the havoc has sister the frame? (7)

19 Regal payment? (7)

20 Preserve nerve (6)

23 I had come up with Violet’s share (4)

Friday’s solution:

Across: 1 Dipstick, 5 Laptop, 10 Erosion, 11 Austere, 12 Laird, 13 To the bone, 14 Registered post, 17 Larger than life, 21 Splendour, 23 Garbo, 24 Retsina, 25 Actions, 26 Saddhu, 27 Syndrome.

Down: 1 Deeply, 2 Provide, 3 Third time, 4 Constitutional, 6 Aisle, 7 Tiepolo, 8 Pretexts, 9 Masterman ready, 15 Delegated, 16 Allsorts, 18 Related, 19 Furioso, 20 Popsie, 22 Neigh.

Last week’s solution;

Across: 1 On top of the world, 9 Clipper, 10 Nonplus, 11 Pompeii, 12 Set fair, 13 Prearrangement, 15 Nineteenth hole, 21 Dessert, 22 Palette, 23 Burn out, 24 Atheist, 25 Eighteenth green.

Down: 1 Occupy, 2 Trimmer, 3 Pipped at the post, 4 Farrier, 5 Hands-on, 6 Went the whole hog, 7 Release, 8 Discrete, 14 Inedible, 16 Nose-rag, 17 Entitle, 18 Topmast, 19 Lattice, 20 Pectin