CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Street kid appears in magazine over being adopted by travelling funfair (10) 6 Person who rules eastern
border going west (4) 10 Boys seen around
new estates (5) 11 Coach taken in by others
getting control (9) 12 Mop has gone to pieces,
love — this’ll fix it! (7) 13 Novel-sounding court case —
not independent or impartial (7) 14 Minimum requirement to generate reaction, revolutionary racist claims (8,4) 18 Betraying line with first thing
to be taken to market (8,4) 21 Dirty, like a lake? (7) 23 Walk indignantly away
from fringe (7) 24 Executive committee in favour of keeping nothing built badly (9) 25 Foodstuff requiring
journey east ? (5)
26 Finally books a quiet band (4) 27 Labour facing Tory inheritance (10)
DOWN
1 Appreciate dressing
for dinner (6) 2 Affable senior officer
taking one for the Queen (6) 3 Nick, married, is suitable (14) 4 Omitted all bar one of
the team and lost (9) 5 Dramatist at home
infected by disease (5) 7 Mother with iron disorder
— notice artery (4,4) 8 Book girl, not as unforgiving (8) 9 Fixer to others worried when importing foreign currency (14) 15 Weather feature that’s source of corrosion on antique facade (4,5) 16 I like that poet’s new elementary forms (8) 17 Basic technique of a seamstress? (2-6) 19 Boyfriend in Germany keeping close (6) 20 House evacuated, surrounded by top command (6) 22 Beautiful young woman appointed time on island (5)