CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Bum gulps a rum candy (5,4) 6 Compartment for honey

and old string (5) 9 Candies New Brunswick

included among benefits (7) 10 Mutt’s tail upset candy (7) 11 Jog, swallowing second

of gummy fish (5) 12 Lounge is filled with

popular candies (9) 13 Reordered plainer candy (7) 15 Woman’s name for a

hair holder, so to speak (7) 16 Thoroughly dip the nuts,

holding candy’s centre (2,5) 19 Desert traveller eating

a red candy (7) 21 Loot cache freely for candy (9) 22 Preserve a large waterway

in Venice (5) 24 Peg’s carrying off candies (7) 25 Dotty sang out “Candies!” (7) 26 Cancels coating of nutshells (5) 27 In state of anxiety,

mete out confection (9)

DOWN 1 Wooden shoe has a

bottle inside (5) 2 Boat in lagoon drifting

with 500 aboard (7) 3 Cheer about Southern

resting place (5) 4 French explorer, so everything’s in article in French (2,5) 5 Gentle one embracing

a true English princess (7) 6 Warner’s a neurotic

crackpot (9) 7 Neglected female

in release (4,3) 8 Revamped row levels get too filled up (9) 13 Where Einstein taught text about grasping the speed of light and energy (9) 14 Those who spruce up Spirit and Rolling Stones? (9) 17 Ominous mould of liquid (7) 18 Family known for publishing second among valentines (7) 19 Purge covered by Maclean’s evenhandedly (7) 20 Fellow and companion order (7) 22 Woo love, in short (5) 23 Romantic composer’s catalogue recited (5)