CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across 3. Irritable (9)

8. Listen (4)

9. Genuinely (9)

10. Sell (6)

11. Bend forward (5)

14. Laughing dog (5)

15. Decree (4)

16. Provision (5)

18. Element gas (4)

20. New (5)

21. Welsh town (5)

24. Vouch (6)

25. Easy (2,7)

26. Departed (4)

27. Draining (9) Down

1. Speed writing (9)

2. Greek temple (9)

4. Track (4)

5. Implied (5)

6. Distress (6)

7. Fable (4) 9. --- Marner, by George Eliot (5)

11. Laziness (5)

12. Succeeded (9)

13. Deadlock (9)

17. Scalpel (5)

19. Relating to nerves (6)

22. Confidence (5)

23. Mast (4)

24. Plus (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across 3. Noted for being whimsical perhaps (9)

8. Listen to half a cry of approbation (4) 9. Without feigning, because has to trust (9)

10. Give another appendage, but not wholesale (6) 11. Lower oneself to put empty pots back (5) 14. Animal with a sense of humour? (5) 15. Humour is about right in this legal document (4) 16. Capital animals on the farm (5)

18. Gas used in one onslaught (4) 20. Hitherto unknown work of fiction (5)

21. Then a change below in poetry (5)

24. Stand by half-deaf company (6)

25. Quite simple: it isn't Russian money (2,7) 26. Resigned from political wing (4) 27. Reduction through removal round pithead (9) Down 1. Quick small worker writing (9) produced by

2. Not Greek complete temple (9) fowl on

4. Shout abuse as storyteller gets up (4)

5. Unspoken account taken in by bird (5)

6. Agricultural implement at famous school (6)

7. The story of tip-top beer (4) 9. He figured in the chapter of the Acts I last read (5)

11. The sheer laziness of this animal! (5)

12. Evil padre carried the day (9)

13. Nobody won: ship's officer was past his best (9)

17. Belief in kicking holds up cutting instrument (5)

19. Unreal damage of nerves (6)

22. Show confidence in great rustic characters (5)

23. Extreme European? (4)

24. Sam coal sold, too (4)