The following clues form a word chain. The last three letters of one word form the first three letters of the next word, and the list wraps round from the last word to the first. Mostly straightforward, but there may be one or two hyphenated or two-word ones in there, and remember it was compiled by a Brit. Plenty there, so feel free to grab a couple
-1. Aromatic herb
-2. One more in addition
-3. Beach Boy's hit single
-4. Material with low thermal conductivity
-5. Filled pasta
-6. Unfriendly
-7. Musical style, often with extemporized lyrics
-8. Skin complaint
-9. Mythical king facing an uphill task
-10. Farming
-11. Gin and vermouth libation
-12. British architect, 16th-17th century
-13. Ensconced snugly
-14. Flat horizontal stone slab
-15. Relating to the elderly
-16. Mode of transport
-17. Hedging shrub
-18. Trait of being stubborn
-19. English county
-20. Navigation instrument
-21. Property of Pb(C2H5)4, for example
-22. Problem-solving philosophy
-23. Double-section translucent plastic ball
-24. Region surrounding an atomic nucleus in which the probability distribution of the electrons is given by a wave function
-25. Terrorist organisation
-26. Former name of the capital of Karnataka, SW India.