GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tides swirling round end

of bus stop (6) 4,23 Try to get friend into new art and

old Marian hymn music (6,5) 9 Couple stealing gold from

home helper (4) 10 Money given to fourth in

line, say, for property (4,6) 11 Round clubs for

the old man (6) 12 Let down by legal document

about apartment (8) 13 Cruel and pointed remark by

one born in late March? (9) 15 Accommodation for

archaeologists? (4) 16 Part of the Koran found in

ancient city in Saudi Arabia (4) 17 One travelling out to

north Germany (9) 21 Itinerant magician’s prop turned King Edward into Queen Elizabeth! (8) 22 Drink, one way and another,

leads to disturbance (6) 24 Craftsman means to

groom his boy (10) 25 Ass featured in ancient

witchcraft (4) 26 River bird may be a

record holder (6) 27 Soldiers leaving train for

another kind of transport (6)

DOWN

1 Excitement about Switzerland’s old silver coin (7) 2 Cancel subscription to protect creditor (5) 3 Streetwise leader’s entreaty

to graffiti artist? (7) 5 Upper-class chap snorting

drugs to get things going (3,3) 6 Taliban to become an army unit (9) 7 Pre-rest, naughty child

moves unsteadily (7) 8 Vehicles, one after another, carrying assistance, turned up to support a major medical emergency (7,6) 14 Damaged car banned

in social event (4,5) 16 Set up celebrity with young

man from the fifties (7) 18 Sergeant abroad

missing English rum (7) 19 European charged outside

America is difficult to catch (7) 20 Atrocity committed

on a field of battle? (6) 23 See 4