CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
No 16,761 WIN £500
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ACROSS
1 Fool guarding Laurel’s
wild horse (7) 5 Lied horribly about politician’s slight depression (6) 9 Head office in local ground produces hard stuff (7) 10 Artist on the fiddle doesn’t finish Italian dish (7) 11 Trendy name
for tavern (3) 12 Success limits good busy garage where cases pile up (7,4) 13 Delighted to obtain new organ (5) 14 Piano part pal of Ted’s transposed (4,5) 16 European in ramshackle tardy vessel gets reduced fare (3,6) 17 Chilean desert borders them (5) 19 Bold 23 cultivated fruit (5,6) 22 French department’s very dark in the middle (3) 23 Old ass brought back herb (7) 24 The languages of love? (7) 26 In which former Queen housed former lover? (6) 27 Organise single, initially homeless, people (7)
DOWN
1 Import eastern
article into China (7) 2 Old school needs army cordon to be arranged (9,6) 3 Like hotel’s wood
supplier (3) 4 Regularly glum convict here in Russia once? (5) 5 Swimming aid for island in need of repair (6,3) 6 Film second
contest (5) 7 I drool in advance, getting prepared for this artist’s work (8,2,5) 8 Steal the Spanish
metal (6) 12 Foreign articles about Germany’s item in soup kitchen (5) 14 Start old-fashioned
individual (6,3) 15 Smooth quiet way (5) 16 One in red plot standing up to leader of rebels (6) 18 Sound coming from small creche in turmoil? (7) 20 Explorer departs
with rifle (5) 21 Bottle consumed in
dinner venue (5) 25 Margaret’s stone
upended (3)
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