CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Idyllic poem completed

and recited (8)

5 Everything in rotten poem (6)

10 Part of the Arthurian world (5) 11 Excited about copies of a poet’s foot (9)

12 Investment strategy I’d brought back: writing poetry (15)

13 Use “the Poet of the Yukon” (7)

14 Slow article by Italian poet (7)

16 Unfortunately, Eliot is

most unctuous (7)

19 Seems happy about

one poet’s devices (7)

21 Poet revised “red alert” message (5,3,7)

24 “Green haystacks” in short poems (9)

25 Get into the gist of Auden tercet (5)

26 Creating measures of note, work as a bard? (6)

27 Writer of fairy tales mistakenly ensnared (8)

DOWN

1 Going through apple a day, make a case (5)

2 Shudder about Rome’s first priest, at times (7)

3 White rose altered in a different way (9)

4 Sinful desire for one variant on diamonds (7)

6 Sports centre reflected an age (5)

7 Valiant stranger from a Baltic republic (7)

8 Wine holders in bars catching fire (9)

9 Damage in a seaside attraction (6)

13 Sled, going around rundown abode, cleared snow (9)

15 Stop a public display from the Syrian capital (9)

17 Vegetables’ sticky secretion found in sediment (7)

18 Lengthen certain exhibits from that place (6) 19 Dumbbells carried by Bart or Lisa (7)

20 Character in Hamlet relates badly (7)

22 Second half of rare Kurosawa film broadcast again (5)

23 Father North’s warning (5)