Crossword

Across

1 Mr Jim’s seaplane carries detective from 21 across (4,4,6) 7 High five halved for retro music player (4) 8 To aid descent, try a word with stains (10) 10 Pasta sauce in P.E.: capital! (6) 11 Drunken crew has bias towards walking sideways (8) 13 Shady work with dots and dashes (9) 15 South West mines produced it in quantity. (3) 16 Renoir went back to city in Brazil (3) 17 No, Trev, ley lines run back in this Devon village (9) 21 Writer: crucified, that is, by some critics (8) 22 Give up handing it in (6) 24 Apes in cart resemble fluffy feline (7,3) 25 Six and back reveals line for rotation (4) 26 Seedy place for puppets on t.v. (6,6) Down

1 Ragtime jazzed up for French detective (7) 2 Lasting sores from hornet’s nest: author 2&6 down (5) 3 Cheshire’s listening bank? (7) 4 Journalists press ahead with big meetings (4,11) 5 How to behave in a cast (3) 6 See 2 down (7) 9 Rats return to celebrity (4) 12 No eyed waiter brings a drink. (5) 14 Oasis rips apart skin condition (9) 16 Cobbler does work for the downtrodden (7) 18 Place it in visor for a guest (7) 19 The source of rivers and of species (6) 20 A net that holds a mountain: explosive stuff (4) 23 Mabel assumes responsibility (5)

Quick clues

Across

1 One of the great female fictional sleuths (4,4,6) 7 Old music player in brief (4) 8 Usually the first or ground floor (10) 10 Kafka’s birthplace (6) 11 Sideways (8) 13 Artistic technique using dots (9) 15 ...-eared (3) 16 ___ de Janeiro (3) 17 Devonian village near The Rock (9) 21 Burgh Island author (8) 22 Give in, or hand in (6) 24 Fluffy pet from the Middle East? (7,3) 25 Line of symmetry (4) 26 Home of Elmo and the cookie monster (6,6) Down

1 Simenon’s famous sleuth (7) 2 Author of Millenium trilogy featuring Lisbeth

Salander - 2 & 6 down (5) 3 Home of bank of radio telescopes listening into space (7) 4 In which Whitty asked for ‘next slide please’ (4,11) 5 Perform or pretend (3) 6 See 2 down (7) 9 Celeb or guiding light (4) 12 H2O or no-cal drink (5) 14 Immune condition leading to flaky skin (9) 16 Repairs shoes (7) 18 Tourist or day tripper (7) 19 Beginning or ancestry (6) 20 Active volcano in Sicily (4) 23 To hold responsible or take the rap (5)

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