CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 6 Fruitful series triumph of

one barely running (7,6) 8 Lines one very good soldier

from Down Under cut (6) 9 Item for storing leaves two

things on course, we hear (3,5) 10 Old bird making

endless lament (3) 11 Box holding English produce (6) 12 Metal barrel by gents

removed (8) 14 Thoroughly fashionable

wisdom (2,5) 16 For audience shortly,

host gives wave (7) 20 Fringe breaks record time to

show short-lived things (8) 23 Bottled gas could offer a new

energy to get behind yet (6) 24 Vigour this person’s

displayed after five (3) 25 Entailed adjusting what may

be found at top of paper (8) 26 Quite a strange one having

fled European match (6) 27 Going off celeb’s heavenly

body that’s flared up (9,4)

DOWN 1 Soak fruit one sister’s

put on (8) 2 Film Etna erupting —

fibre’s needed (8) 3 Disturb a person working

in US military gallery (7) 4 Injury riddle (6) 5 Where people go round night and day getting to the heart of problem answers (2,4) 6 Oasis panic, greet

law roughly (8,5) 7 Hoaxer going to church

in Worcs town (13) 13 Animal found in

alarming numbers (3) 15 Woman briefly turning

chart over (3) 17 Coach comes up with

‘Join together or go under’ (8) 18 Quotient resolved,

almost (3,5) 19 Live jumps during January Olympic event (7) 21 Grant immunity to former partner, nearly clear (6) 22 One runs daily or

weekly perhaps (6)