CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Issue returned by boy at the last

moment (4,2,4)

6 Somewhat obscene material

turning stomachs over (4) 10 Monk astride large pack

animal (5)

11 Laird, perhaps, in an unhappy

mood by end of tribunal (9) 12 Well-liked university in London

area (7)

13 Bad lot, I suspect,

in newspaper (7)

14 What a crane may get, and what one may get from a crane? (5-3,4)

18 Book full of promise about

Cochran’s style of music? (8,4) 21 Boyfriend, initially visiting

model prison, brings pot (4-3) 23 Feeling demonstrated by

symbol Charlie left out (7) 24 Revolutionary tsar China

crushed (9)

25 Crown I found inside O’Hara’s

plantation (5)

26 Changed course, reportedly,

showing diplomacy (4)

27 Old TV show for children

produced by drama group (4,6)

DOWN

1 Left work in American sucker’s

tin lizzie (6)

2 Smart, agent snatching

short sleep (6)

3 Maiden secured by one fairly good ball – never mind the others! (2,3,5,4)

4 Listener participation show at RKO – dial free (4,5)

5 Mount enthralling solitary

landscape painter (5)

7 Guy, old, playing popular

instrument (8)

8 Go lower and lower (4,4) 9 Puzzle about circles circulated

after party (6,8)

15 Seriously ahead of time parked outside home (9)

16 Remove a bishop’s booklet (8) 17 Passing across note, Calvin ordered something to drink in a Parisian bar (3,5) 19 Domineering female artist in

Spanish port (6)

20 Characters immersed in scandal lied, as well as the rest (3,3)

22 Cook taking breather round middle of afternoon (5)