Across
- 2. Period of seven consecutive days
- 4. Confidence
- 8. Rationality
- 11. Band of flowers
- 13. Concerned with or suggestive of theories
- 17. Reasoning
- 18. bring up
- 19. Set of eight notes
- 21. Social outcast
- 22. Show off
- 24. detonate
- 25. Taxi-driver, colloquially
- 26. Bobbin
Down
- 1. Long sharp-pointed implement
- 3. Rapid transport of goods
- 5. Surpassing in quality
- 6. Protein found in hair, feathers, nails and hooves
- 7. Intrude in other people's affair
- 9. Church instrument
- 10. Very old
- 12. stings
- 14. Widely cultivated plant grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas
- 15. Trite or obvious remark
- 16. Pugilist
- 20. Volley
- 23. Oscillate
- 25. Bird which lays in another's nest
