THE CRYPTIC:
ACROSS 1. The Italian-Australian conservative – narrow-minded and bigoted (9)
6. Make faces in coffee shops (5) 9. Strange dialect in the fortress (7)
10. Uncontrollable mania about directions leads to forgetfulness (7)
11. Town in Italy south that is not available (5)
12. Fruit – sharper taste I don’t think, in England (9)
13. Save diet recipe – it makes you tired (8)
14. Goodbye, Indian car (4)
17. Puts down songs (4)
18. New turn around atmospheric
gas – a forbidden area (2,2,4) 21. Firm with a non-drinker suffers – those who hang on to them are freeloaders! (4-5)
22. 501 lines, little idiots! (5)
24. Touching line for a brown
bloke (7)
25. Turn off the illumination –
what joy! (7)
26. State hiding secret service –
disrespectful (5)
27. Threat to Tea Party host (3,6)
DOWN 1. Corporation like Peruvian emperors? (5)
2. Young evangelists start any details badly (6-3,6)
3. Offensive state (3,5)
4. Uncle, perhaps – but not in absolute terms (8)
5. Beginner makes money and gains an education (6) 6. An ember – new in a drink (6) 7. Fred Nile’s original take on Diwali (8,2,5)
8. Dead heat? Good man – booze with a friend (9)
13. Rocky compounds for dopey Upton and Moss, it is reported (9)
15. Ran easily around Nolan – very uneven (8)
16. Acid role found for Regan’s
sister (8)
19. Unyielding fish in a pen (6) 20. Cricketers Trumper and May
– a sacrifice! (6)
23. Traitor is back with an
instrument (5)