Guardian Cryptic #28121

2020-04-30

Solve on Guardian →

Across

1a

Why one visits bathroom without posh rug (6)

4a

Troublemaker, a scallywag at heart (6)

9a

Continue to show a certain undergarment, a German number (3,2,3,1,6)

10a

Dick twisted many an arm (6)

11a

Tries pants on wrong, looking ugly (8)

flowerflowerflower
12a

Draw out scandal involving Musk (8)

flowerflowerflower
14a

Discovers large nets (6)

flowerflowerflower
15a

Trump's enforcers limit what Pole may display (3-3)

18a

Saturated fat (8)

flowerflowerflower
21a

Drop of tea, we hear, in blue vessel (8)

22a

Shelter from a Catholic over­whelmed by pointlessness? (6)

24a

A Rembrandt concocted with guile and craft may go missing here (7,8)

flowerflowerflower
25a

After fool's sent back, taste sweet dish (6)

flowerflowerflower
26a

Action of a lowdown, gutless cowboy (6)

Down

1d

Minor hearing about sex in Rome (7)

2d

Note circling reptile is a threat, in the main (1-4)

3d

Pip's ideal extracted from grapes? Tell agriculturist (7)

flowerflowerflower
5d

Ways artist's lifted up magazine (7)

6d

Foolishly had scrap with Repub­lican who won't deal fairly (4,5)

7d

Light, new, lit up rental houses (7)

8d

Monster, one in northerly German city (6)

13d

Informally, handles collars worn by celebrity (9)

flowerflowerflower
16d

Come off worst in competition still (5-2)

17d

Sacking personnel extremely ready for operation? (7)

18d

Stand for leader of England with muscular back (6)

19d

The writer's getting on, showing representational technique (7)

20d

Creativity in book covers of Tolstoy (7)

23d

One is found in chapter, as a rule (5)

flowerflowerflower