ACROSS
1 Tree resins in health facilities sent back (4) SAPS<=
3
Common insects: audience hurries away (10)
HOUSEFLIES {HOUSE}{FLIES}
9 What’s in j
ug?
Lichee
fruit (4)
UGLI [T]
10
Messed around with
ease, I
might be on a roll (6,4)
SESAME SEED {MESSED+EASE}*
11 Bureaucrat to avoid
waterfowl (8,4)
MANDARIN DUCK {MANDARIN}{DUCK}
15 Pine marten perhaps leading in distance raced (7)
FURLONG {LONG}<=>{FUR}
16 Ignoring some affront, he got busy (2-3-2) ON-THE-GO [T]
17 Everyman initially nags deputies: they fill the cells (7) INMATES {I}{Nags}{MATES}
19 Corroborate order for Paddington to go? (4,3) BEAR OUT {BEAR}{OUT}
20 Writhing, hurt, rocks or reels at first, filled with dread (6-6) HORROR STRUCK {HURT+ROCKS+OR+Re..s}
23 According to Spooner, not one youngster or the other is to wed (3,3,4) TIE THE KNOT (~neither tot to tie the knot)
24 In den, with stomach churning, peddler of falsehoods (4) LIAR {L(A<=>I)R}
25 Records rugby highlights in woven illustrations (10) TAPESTRIES {TAPES}{TRIES}
26
Empire invaded by Spanish finding home by
Central
America (4)
INCA {IN}{C}{A}
DOWN
1 Miss embraced by oiled
nudist hunk (4,6)
STUD MUFFIN {MUFF} in {NUDIST}*
2 Race car, for example – or kayak! (10) PALINDROME Definition by Example
4 Job available in Gap (7) OPENING [DD]
5 Creep showing how to describe what’s average in two words? (2-3-2) SO-AND-SO [DD]
6 Egg on this:
santé! (6,5)
FRENCH TOAST [DD]
7 Notion, almost perfect (4) IDEA IDEAl
8
Scandalous author – disturbing
eroticist, principally? (4)
SADE {SAD}{E
r...t}
12 Characters seen in Britain’s Got Talent and The Winter’s Tale? (11) APOSTROPHES Def by Example
13 Rising gyration (10) REVOLUTION [DD]
14 Alternative adopted by disruptive
shakeout somewhere on the Yellow Sea (5,5)
SOUTH KOREA {OR} in {SHAKEOUT}*
18 Attacking footballer, one with brilliant match? (7)
STRIKER [DD]
19 Read aloud Howl, poem: will it scan? (7) BARCODE {(~ bark)BARC}{ODE}
21 Piece of info, ASAP! (4) STAT [DD]
22 Look furtively – in both directions? (4) PEEP <=>
Reference List
Central = C, America = A