CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3. Paper gain coming to light (9)

8. You and I take the responsibility (4)

9. The inference is that there will be a discount (9)

10. It may commemorate a

confused battle (6)

11. Blaze up and spread like

a bell (5)

14. Get a smell in a romantic

way (5)

15. Always the night before?

Right! (4)

16. So art can be used to

cook (5)

18. Large quantities destined

for the poles? (4)

20. Governs by regulations,

perhaps (5)

21. Foreign money recovered

from drain (5)

24. Spoil container to get

bird (6)

25. No plainer perfect

example (9)

26. Producing tip-top

lubricant is hard work (4) 27. White ores processed under different conditions (9)

DOWN

1. Reduces formal agreements (9) 2. Astonish by showing the mute is no longer lost (9) 4. His work should not be prosaic (4)

5. The quality is no different inside (5)

6. Finish work and go to bed (6)

7. Time is the same on rising (4)

9. Exclude bread (5)

11. Learner just about getting

knack (5)

12. Outlive no

development (9)

13. Soon as a gift? (9)

17. Hearing may cause

affliction (5)

19. Neither requiring nor having much intelligence (6)

22. It won’t fly as long as it’s

in a quiver (5)

23. The length of an

extremity (4)

24. Feel the loss of a girl (4)