CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Kicked around a match official

having forgotten trainers? (10) 6 Camel has such a bad mood (4) 9 An American coin I

collected, very old (7) 10 Get stuck going round flipping

motorway diversion (7) 12 Medal for person succeeding

with first clue (8,5) 14 Most of the ethnic group in

SE European region (6) 15 Crooked conman smuggling

fashionable spice (8) 17 Sort of sin of the flesh – I’d

slipped back into that (8) 19 French dear possessing

reasonably good necklace (6) 22 Potters around these items of furniture having a nap (7,6) 24 I retain curious resistance to change (7) 25 Rouse to action gathering

right support (7) 26 Sets down songs (4) 27 After teaching degree, lecturer initially gets teased about being scruffy (10)

DOWN 1 Carry animal (4) 2 Car going round the

City in rally (7) 3 Dawn perhaps before insect appears – something to amuse children? (6,7) 4 Alternative work

about to keep it up (6) 5 Former wife is supported by smallest bit of money allowed, that’s clear (8) 7 What many students

wear in university class (7) 8 Liberal entertained by country

folk’s friendly remark (10) 11 Every boxer has this

dietary supplement (6,7) 13 Put ingredients in place to make whisky without stirring (5-5) 16 The French old city energy

fed prize-winner (8) 18 Where birds hatch eggs,

sheltering fine over railway (7) 20 Bird of prey, among

quickest relatively (7) 21 Sounds like the people to put a rocket up former Arab leader (6) 23 Vegetable popular primarily

in South of France (4)