THE CROSSWORDS
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Swelling from blowing bugle (5)
8 Show disdain for Winnie’s duplicity? (4-4) 9 Cast votes for a cooker (5)
10 Guide to advanced maturity for poor sailors? (8) 11 It has point in crosswords (5)
12 To the South-east there’s a large stretch of water (3)
16 Seize a king before all others (6)
17 Some member of the church or a leader of the choir (6)
18 Still up to date? (3)
23 Colour halfway between red and green (5) 24 Gave lads the means to be saved from ruin (8) 25 Wild goose yarn? (5)
26 Loving converse? (8)
27 Stop for a rest, we hear (5)
DOWN
2 Drawn out in the wrong order - that’s awkward (8) 3 Science-fiction writer about whom divinity gave a ruling (8)
4 He’s too upset to calm down (6) 5 Absolutely diaphanous? (5)
6 Summer’s work is complete (5)
7 These could be on the bed (5)
12 Nine out of sixty pigs live here (3)
13 To take part is the done thing (3)
14 He turns out amusing little articles (8) 15 Independent young beef producer (8)
19 They leave the stage (6)
20 An air of devotion (5)
21 Another name for a criminal (5)
22 We’re clean out of them (5) QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Annul judicially (5) 8 Decisive confrontation (8) 9 To cast (5)
10 Underhand scheming (8) 11 French painter, d. 1883 (5) 12 Peppery (3)
16 Bargain contentiously (6) 17 Quickness of perception (6) 18 For what reason (3)
23 A self-evident truth (5) 24 Sycophantic adherent (6-2) 25 Cut of beef (5)
26 A ribbed pile fabric (8) 27 Intense (5)
DOWN 2 Revolutionary change (8) 3 Antiquated and primitive (5-3) 4 Japanese religion (6)
5 Given on oath (5)
6 Branch of a tree (5) 7 Subordinate to (5)
12 Cut with blows (3)
13 Scottish river (3) 14 Impractically idealistic (8) 15 Ringing (8)
19 Jinx (6)
20 Verify (5)
21 Trap (5)
22 South Korean capital (5)