GK Crossword No. 53 (DT)
by Medusa

Across

Sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine (8)
Oblong cream puff (6)
Tincture of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient (8)
10 Californian city and naval base (3,5)
11 Sloped annex on house (4-2)
12 1815 battle and London terminus (8)
13 One of the bony segments of the spinal column (8)
16 Large marsupial (8)
19 Surname, originally the third name of a Roman (8)
21 Gilbert and Sullivan work subtitled The Town of Titipu (6)
23 "Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone ---" [Aphra Behn] (8)
24 Plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve (8)
25 Colourless, amorphous bitter substance obtained from vegetable matter and used in dyes and wine-making (6)
26 Wood hyacinth (8)

Down

A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks (alt spelling) (7)
Where a rider stores things (9)
Writer of 1984 (6)
Revolutionary's incendiary bomb (7,8)
A room for rough kitchen work (8)
Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World (5)
Imaginary line dividing the world into two hemispheres (7)
14 Gland that puts secretions into the blood (9)
15 Dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar used as a preservative for wood (8)
17 A lady's maid (7)
18 Member of the a nomadic tribe of Arabs (7)
20 Egg or sperm cell (6)
22 Love feast (5)

Solution


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