CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Guidelines may see dreadful

deeds executed? (10) 6 Horse covering miles

in search (4)

9 Goes behind on yields (7) 10 Express disapproval of traditional history written by deputy (7) 12 Amazed to see second

lorry after crash (13) 14 Consumers will see ruses

deployed on purpose (3-5) 15 Resent the Queen’s

bodyguard (6) 17 Contemporary fashion

and the navy (6)

19 Prospect of gold in

part of Latin America (8) 21 12 flatbed barges

on the move (13)

24 Love to finish in profit

for school event (4,3)

25 V gives victory, in a way (7) 26 Large spruce (4)

27 Small community’s

agreed resolution (10)

DOWN

1 Bolt’s key skill (4) 2 Staff outside gallery

took turns (7) 3 Restricted, CID curbs

crime in a riot (13) 4 Clubbable types jailed, with ringleaders on the outside (8)

5 The lowest point in a

directive revealed? (5) 7 Ring round being

pompous (7)

8 Money comes after

opportunity to eat (5,5) 11 Market set up weekly

in slip road (9,4)

13 Sort of ground farmers opt to change (10) 16 Falls could show eyesight problem (8) 18 Seeing late goal, one’s

going nowhere (4,3)

20 A way of cooking

for impact in beer (2,5) 22 Rough stuff, for instance — word that finds partner in crime? (5) 23 Group holding start of this

instruction to printer (4)