THE BS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Performance by a team is a

fair attraction (4-4)

5 Willing to submit something fishy turning up might be a lie (6) 9 A superficial inspection in the old days was superfluous (4,4)

10 Delay retirement (4,2) 11 For the greens — i.e., put

some life into them (8) 12 In we go for a duck (6) 14 Mum, is anyone making the

dressing ? (10)

18 Arouse hope, performing

in place of performance (5,5) 22 Work hard on an article, it's

often said (6)

23 A business at Canada is transferred to the coast of East India (8)

24 Get on or off a source of

luminosity (1,5)

25 A new stricter limit (8) 26 Materials with a metal

centre (6)

27 Dad holds everything back

about his knee-cap (8)

DOWN

1 Gave support to Rhodes

perhaps (6)

2 Arrayed like a ship? (6)

3 Patsy goes to ruin (6)

4 Free go starts with each

boy (4,6)

6 Things new without the pub?

Cheers! (8)

7 Daring Pinter play,

"Instinct" (8)

8 Former quiet and

authoritative newsman

made much of (8)

13 A hero's rope is thus entangled in a western (5,5)

15 There's no getting rid of

Robert at sea ! (8)

16 A song-writer seldom

gets confused with it (8) 17 Battle caused harm, not a

doubt (8)

19 One might get it in the neck from that sort of a tree (6)

20 An idle stupid guy (6) 21 Saloon-keeper dropping the

last exchange (6)