CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

3. Plentiful (9) 8. Ground (4) 9. Virulent (9) 10. Rough (6) 11. Conifer tree (5) 14. Raises (5) 15. Similar to (4) 16. Ages (5) 18. Bullet (4) 20. Plural of this (5) 21. Vaults (5) 24. Wept (6) 25. Wooing (9) 26. Shortly (4) 27. Beggar (9)

Down

1. Clear (sky) (9)

2. On the ground (9) 4. Coffee seed (4) 5. Join (5) 6. Negation (6)

7. IX (4)

9. In disarray (5) 11. Lesson (5)

12. Side of a stream (5,4) 13. The accused (9) 17. Leather strap (5) 19. Circuited (6) 22. Elementary (5) 23. Affection (4) 24. Emblem (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across 3. Article on springing in plenty (9)

8. 50 also worked by the farmer (4) 9. Speak evil of worker likely to do harm (9)

10. Roughly odd? (6)

11. Raced round a tree (5) 14. Do they take the hitchhiker up? (5)

15. Be happy with not being different (4)

16. The earth's revolutionary times (5) 18. How the film star was wounded? (4)

20. Sheet gives the ones here (5)

21. Burial places destined for doctors? (5)

24. Cried thus, seeing bed with double head (6)

25. Royal vessel after engagement? (9) 26. Some writing man, only we don't know his game (4)

27. Reform is impossible for me as a beggar (9)

Down 1. Sold clues without a break in the sun (9)

2. Not twelve inches where one is walking (9)

4. A runner, for example, for the stakes? (4)

5. Make one in fun – it enriches (5) 6. Refusal of dying leader to take alien mixture (6)

7. As saved by the timely needlewoman? (4) 9. Untidy, like dining rooms for servicemen? (5)

11. Students find college head with girl (5)

12. Where current accounts are held? (5,4) 13. What his solicitor will do for worker who is in the dock (9)

17. Harbours put up leather for sharpening (5) 19. Went round with dunderhead taking wrong route (6)

22. Cab is fundamental here (5)

23. Really enjoy having no score? (4)

24. In such rites, ignore the symbol (4)