THE CROSSWORDS

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 So go away (5)

8 After a drink, game for a fight (8)

9 Pain that makes any go wild (5) 10 Tightly packed tennis fans may well enjoy it (5,3)

11 Rose paid for the drinks (5)

12 Put Sue into employment (3)

16 The vicar’s address (6)

17 Well-filled vessel (6)

18 The French maid’s home address (3) 23 Back a favourite I’d found not so hot (5) 24 It’s very hard, yet maths revision is essential (8)

25 Traditionally it is applied to the back parts (5)

26 Father’s fur coat is good enough (8)

27 We set out without a trace of bitterness (5)

DOWN

2 Score but two (8)

3 NCO arranged battle course (8) 4 Bounds within which wines are stored (6) 5 Spread quickly round the Orient (5) 6 Order that’s socially divisive (5) 7 Party-giver receives a plant (5)

12 One Italian girl’s name (3)

13 A little something in addition (3)

14 Pull beneath the waves (8)

15 It appears in a woman’s secret birthright (8) 19 Make little noise when stock-taking (6) 20 Contented to lie very quietly in dry grass (5) 21 Still put about as a cause of ferment (5) 22 Advanced to be a school principal (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Spectre (5)

8 Adverse aspect (8) 9 Harden (5) 10 Protesting angrily (2,2,4) 11 A lofted golf club (5) 12 Japanese monetary unit (3) 16 A beverage (6)

17 Too (6)

18 To haul (3)

23 Proverb (5) 24 Characteristic attribute (8) 25 Despondency (5)

26 Clear soup (8)

27 A plastic (5)

DOWN

2 Unwanted follower (6-2) 3 Make light of (5,3)

4 Cause to tip over (6) 5 Senseless (5)

6 Texture (5)

7 Untidy (5)

12 So far (3)

13 Seeing that (3)

14 Capital of India (3,5)

15 The US flag (3,5) 19 Punctually (2,4)

20 Room (5)

21 Obliged (5) 22 Argentine president, d.1974 (5)