CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Take advantantage of what Italy and India have reported (10) 6 Port bottle’s seal (4) 9 Caught mistress taking tea? One could be lucky (10) 10 Frightful characters appearing regularly in Burghley (4) 12 Device for carrying babies (6) 13 In the red, fashionable music maker (8)

15 Insist Romans misrepresented in broadcast (12)

18 Wife fighting to secure high-class sale (5,7)

21 & 22 It involves tricks to tighten with spanner (8,6) 24 What may catch something like a fly (4) 25 Remote inns served soup (10) 26 Useless English gent (4) 27 In Lib-dem leader I will replace ace making comeback that can’t be beaten (10) DOWN

1 Set up the French seafood (6) 2 Following advertising get aware of straight away (6) 3 The people shooting arrows here in classic Western (3,9) 4 Sing merrily being drunk, having consumed litres (4) 5 Steady partner, one from the same place (10)

7 Fine material that could give newspaper distinctive stamp (8) 8 Island’s character is essential element (8) 11 Satiric actor masquerading as posh (12) 14 Command having entered 9 perhaps (10) 16 Trained to find ancient coin in rising river (8) 17 Colour newspaper (8)

19 Get attached to film publicity brothers brought up (6) 20 Cut energy — that’s harsh (6) 23 Fairy queen hugged by Greek character (4)