THE BS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fed up, Sue prepares

to ease the tension (6) 4 Great characters (8) 9 What's put behind the

bar, in short (6)

10 Gossip about retired

medic? Forget it! (2,6) 12 Second rate, undercooked fish caused fighting (8) 13 You see there, the five Romans you sail with (6)

15 Means of getting a

friend into the cabin (12) 18 Didn't I try ace performance to show who I really am? (8,4) 21 Find with the top off, in

her hamper (6) 22 Hazel, for example, preferred to inter her food (8)

24 A teach-in arranged for

brewers ? (5,3)

25 Iron man? No, lady (6) 26 Starting price closing

outlay (8)

27 ....but they are doing

nothing ! (6)

DOWN

1 It's a handicap to retire ? (4,4)

2 Are stirring up concerns

about weapons (8)

3 The comings and goings

of the market (6,3,6) 5 Prophetically, I claim to

be so backward (4) 6 Infancy confidante in fairy dreaming perhaps! (9,6)

7 A king, badly hurt in

legend (6)

8 Painfully secretive about

foreign money (6)

11 Sin and I mix well, according to these Asians (7)

14 Jealous of one rising about for to go to America (7)

16 Celebrity recording the wearer's identity (4-4)

17 Possibly resisted one who, on paper, has an important job (8) 19 Contemptuous expression over shelling ? (6)

20 Anger is directed at Number 10, on the whole (6)

23 Young age obtained by initially putting eight in ten ? (4)