GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO. 27,521

ACROSS

8,22down 9, vile 9, are reportedly for literary villain (4,4,6) 9 Criticise poet, initially

rubbish (5) 10 Son clothing daughter

in female clothing (4) 11 Woman with recipe with health food plants (10) 12 Walk between bodyguards in 9 etc (6) 14 Group mostly behind

driver (8) 15 Seek information between the sheets? (7) 17 Kicks horse covered in

ornaments (7) 20 £1,000 gets special 18

(8) 22 Perhaps like 18’s attractiveness and like 12? (6) 23 Sell iodine, perhaps, as a substance in paint (7,3) 24 Electronic sound in live

record (4) 25 Only having left back and German forward (5) 26 Like unmentionables here in broadcast chat item (8)

DOWN

1 Driver’s grumble around peak months (8) 2 Nasty thug, lying, is

leaving thing out (4) 3 Sportsmen’s 9 (6) 4 What backer does

wearing 12 (7) 5 What entertains slob, kind of music quote? (8) 6 Kid returns tight item

of 18 (10) 7 Country church accepts new time to pay foreign bills (6) 13 Tasmanian city throws heavyweight out of hotel (10) 16 Troops needing European ally to appear again (2-6) 18 Remain with Roman that is in 9 etc (8) 19 Types on internet, penning chapter for partners (7) 21 Iran’s foolishly investing a currency abroad (6) 22 See 8 24 Some 18 a lot of money (4)