Complete Clue List
Across
1. Classic TV canine, or Scottish girl
4. Jumped vigorously
9. Blackthorn fruit, often used in home-made gin
10. Took turns
11. Art of growing dwarf trees
12. Right (not rite) of passage
13. Freedom to act (2,7)
15. Rigid bar on a pivot, allows movement with less effort
16. Scottish myth, deadly water horse (alt)
17. Shakespeare's second age of man, "the whining __"
20. One of the acids in various fruits and wine
21. Put a child to bed (4,2)
23. Clouds forming a layer at middle altitude (pl)
24. Roman poet, about the time of Jesus
25. Toadies, sycophants (3,3)
26. Natural fruit setting agent for jam and jelly
Down
1. Floral lady in a depression? (4,2,3,6)
2. Blueprints, or reading glasses, briefly
3. Lennon's ode to peace (1971)
5. Die, or rubber breakdown
6. Warning sound: (5,4)
7. Period (mid-20th C) of increased crops (5,10)
8. Spherical bacteria causing many illnesses
14. Rash, acting without thought
18. Rough sketch or draft without detail
19. Complain about a game bird?
22. Lara, or small Scottish farm