Get ready to test your brainpower with our latest crossword puzzle. This edition is packed with a variety of clues that will engage and challenge puzzle enthusiasts.
Across Clues
1: Remove letters at regular intervals from “germiest mince” to find something that may make you ill (6)
5: Identify a type of fish found in a Greek river (6)
8: Discover a term for overhearing a secret legal proceeding after removing one constituent (7)
9: A term for a writer that also references a well-known electronics brand, known for being clear (7)
11: Strategy for keeping internet prices elevated to increase gains (4,4,7)
12: Symbolic representation of both the tenth and eleventh on a periodic chart (4)
13: Manage a group on a sea vessel (10)
17: An anonymous individual who, if genuine, could alter environmental conditions (10)
18: Encapsulate a US bias within a literary work (4)
20: Spill gin on those who attend lavatories in a comedic manner (6-2-7)
23: Rearrange core words from “trade discount” to describe a unique mode (3,4)
24: Locate a clerk by removing packaging to obtain a healthcare instrument (7)
25: Moderately good-looking (6)
26: Efforts made to garner approval during a break (6)
Down Clues
2: Predictably getting a vast amount post bluff from “Mike” (9)
3: A swimmer who requires a return of drying (6)
4: Suggesting smaller barricades were in front of left-behind territory (6,3)
5: Develop odd route where a doctor finds a grip (5)
6: Community’s appraisal of a cabinet that is mostly uninteresting (8)
7: Dark steeds gathered together missing ultimate backing (5)
8: Capture the sorrow of a leading lady whose sole child of 15 is intruding (11)
10: A Hollywood star combines mix with topping to create something sugary (6,5)
14: Discuss a two-week period onboard a diminutive craft that is misaligned (4-5)
15: Italy plays as the first with a one-nil score (9)
16: Insert current into literary works to highlight for fanatics (8)
19: Delay caused by a sleuth on the escape (6)
21: Attempt to deter by potentially removing half (5)
22: A comedic establishment opens to present a certain type of jest (5)
Reporting based on coverage first published by theguardian.com.