| Across 7. Pieces of dried nasal mucus (7) 8. Slice (5,2) 10. In one's thoughts (2,4,4) 11. A type of jump in figure skating (4) 12. Intimidate an opponent or rival by appearing very confident or aggressive (5,3) 14. Protagonist of a series of comic books by Herge (6) 15. Felix _, German composer, pianist, organist and conductor who wrote the overture A Midsummer Night's Dream and whose Scotch Symphony was inspired by a tour of Scotland in 1829 (11) 19. Any of the series of saturated hydrocarbons (6) 20. The _ _, radio programme in which the characters Eccles and Bluebottle appeared (4,4) 22. Completed or finished (4) 23. Adhesive memo (4-2,4) 25. People employed on a temporary or irregular basis (7) 26. Eavesdrops, informally (7) | Down 1. Warmth (7) 2. A variety of small melon having a green skin and sweet, pale-green flesh (4) 3. The Count of Monte ____, alias of fictional character Edmond Dantes (6) 4. Nuclei of the corpus striatum in the cerebrum of the brain (8) 5. Masses of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside (10) 6. _ call, the appearance of performers at the end of a theatrical performance to aknowledge applause (7) 9. Any person who studies tissues (11) 13. Geological period between the Jurassic and the Palaeogene (10) 16. Means by which a person can change their name (4,4) 17. Scottish village in South Ayrshire in which Robert Burns was born in 1759 (7) 18. Elizabeth ---, 18th-Century social reformer who helped to organise and lead the Blue Stockings Society (7) 21. Frankincense (6) 24. Northern English dialect word for "nothing" (4) |