National Post (National Edition)

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

ACROSS

1 Opening remark interrupte­d by 100 English fellows (12) 9 One point about that guy’s Disneyland locale (7) 10 Hurt by one small economic doctrine (7) 11 Convention­al armaments I modified (10) 12 One-track mind, initially, on love (4) 14 Female spirit seen in pseudonym “Phoebe” (5) 15 Moroccan city leaf collector standing in swamp (9) 16 British nobleman skirting a Polynesian island group (9) 18 Mother takes in good, hot rock (5) 21 Note the first person married with ring (4) 22 Grind in menu misspelled for a really long time (10) 25 Reversing call, scratch football player (7) 26 Boggy area bearing revolution­ary sponge (7) 27 Terrible crime tests my way of gauging things (6,6)

DOWN

1 Stupidly ruin Mac: case for a brain? (7) 2 Pipe repaired each summer (10) 3 Composer Bernste in embraced by Ethel Merman (5) 4 Core groups including old lawmaker friends (9) 5 Sea horse (4) 6 Foul-smelling goose egg is found in Alaskan town (7) 7 One in 3,000 touching wealth (6) 8 Unwrinkled orange eaten by southern insect (6) 13 Subcontrac­ting reconstruc­tion of giant forum (7,3) 15 Grandly liberating cinemas is wrong (9) 16 Indistinct­ly say Manitoba invested in drug smuggler (6) 17 Cameron revised Love Story (7) 19 Suspense writer’s ominous about quiet article (7) 20 Like mad new rage (6) 23 Unevenly mixed up my liquid after first bit of lunch (5) 24 Sharif hit hoop from behind (4)

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