CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Union supporter surprisingly is left outside backing a communist (10)

6 Theatrical party (4)

9 Tangle with international

footballer (5)

10 Right to vote of a man in

European country (9)

12 Award one successful

with first clue! (8,5)

14 Crudely looks back on fresh

depiction of recent events (8) 15 Lower status of church dignitary around

Middle East (6)

17 Cheerful pub to get drunk and

have a meal (6)

19 Product of Seagrams, one may

relieve stress (8)

21 Biblical character – I put in

‘apostle’ erroneously (7,6) 24 Supporter at home was hard to

indoctrinate (9)

25 Head off arm-in-arm showing

tattoos (5)

26 Dash around during vernal

equinox (4) 27 Inexperienced people guided head of government in affairs (10)

DOWN

1 Celebrity makes a couple of

notes (4)

2 Deny Ovid was involved in

Metamorphoses (7)

3 Making a comeback, getting

about in the pink? (13) 4 Spare from socialist

excess (8)

5 Posh part of London holding a

mass for teacher (5)

7 Swim over sea back to front,

being fat (7) 8 Lower orders comprehending students making fatuous remark (10)

11 One to welcome dawn crossing

bridge with one’s dog (6,7) 13 Alpine club disbanded is not to

blame (10)

16 Seized area captured by

whirling Dervish (8) 18 Headgear of daughter taken by

one in hand (7)

20 Good family will take her to find

London landmark (7)

22 Will Shakespeare’s first grand

house (5)

23 Misdeeds regularly ignored in

certain days in Rome (4)