Crossword 2

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

3. Two things that might be leather - that’s capital (5,4) 8. Poke a quiet man (4) 9. Playing a gig and working together (2,7)

10. Fur found in copper mines? (6)

11. Bedlinen item made out of these (5)

14. Dot about it - it means the same (5)

15. Not wild about meat (4) 16. Giant bird taking article (5) 18. Consumer taking American to the Queen (4)

20. Honours the English for being corpulent (5)

21. Twelve practise a form of Buddhism (5)

24. Mohammedan moles upset by Moroccan leader (6)

25. Writing about a star in FT or Express (4,5)

26. Peruse some of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (4)

27. What a press photographer needs to take night pictures? (4,5)

Down

1. Disperse when the food is on the table (6,3)

2. Pledged to be taken into custody (9)

4. Yearn for a tree (4)

5. Time to record love for church (5)

6. Distinction of a hidden store at the top of a tree (6)

7. Certain about 18 (4)

9. Piece of metal turned to gin (5)

11. Didn’t go out for material! (5)

12. Happen to finish second or third (4,5)

13. Decide to discourage getting a pit (9)

17. Unacceptable when off ? (3,2) 19. Sure to sort out ways of getting somewhere (6)

22. Mr Flynn seen in cavalier role (5)

23. The right time of life for anger (4)

24. Don’t hit a girl (4)

QUICK CLUES

Across

3. Short-lived (9) 8. Certain (4)

9. Futile (9)

10. Writer (6)

11. Middle (5)

14. Big (5)

15. Genuine (4)

16. Kingdom (5)

18. Approach (4) 20. Fat (5)

21. High (5)

24. Written (6)

25. Vanish (9)

26. Daybreak (4) 27. Accompanying (9)

Down

1. Attacker (9) 2. Brotherly (9) 4. Inferior (4) 5. Boredom (5) 6. Enrol (6)

7. Too (4)

9. Force (5)

11. Pithy (5)

12. Three-yearly (9) 13. The accused (9) 17. Proposer (5) 19. Revolve (6) 22. Lukewarm (5) 23. Droop (4)

24. Hurt (4)