THE BS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Strait cape for a music-maker (4-4)

5 Closely questions cooks (6) 10 Hounds chasing black birds (7) 11 Feeler, as before, to which

the woman rises (7) 12 Approves, but prevaricates if

heartless (5)

13 She's less inclined to run the ad, now she's got a cleaning business (9) 14 I'm not worried about the rail-men. It's nothing serious (5,7)

18 Young relative as poor

convent girl (6,6)

21 To top off, pour one right into

the scented mixture (9) 23 Their characters turn out

somewhere in Kent (5) 24 Forest tree felled (7)

25 Food for asses (7)

26 The sort of truck that's very soft in the middle of the row (6)

27 Cul-de-sac's butts? (4,4)

DOWN

1 It may be blown in fun or burst in awakening (6) 2 Lots of hay stored in the farmyard (6)

3 Keeps cash register to stop

fiddling (4,5)

4 Music of the easter cattle

thieves? (6,2,6)

6 Bawl out duke, becoming esteemed (5)

7 Like an arch editor of medical journal (8)

8 Bath, we hear, showing such

meagreness (8)

9 Uncertain scale used in this

branch of study (7,7)

15 Song about character rejected

by good feudal superior (5,4) 16 It has a thick skin, rougher

than peel (8)

17 Puts chit out for repair (6,2) 19 Fiddle pouring mixture of oil

into champagne, perhaps (6) 20 Engraves hunting scenes ? (6) 22 Apart from a layer, there's nothing added to the region (5)