CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES Across

3. Musical group (9) 8. Hearing organs (4) 9. World conflict (6,3) 10. Payment (6) 11. Complete (5) 14. Muddle (5) 15. Roam (4) 16. Noise (5) 18. Slump (4) 20. Admitted (5) 21. Deteriorating (5) 24. Swiss city (6) 25. Bad people (4-5) 26. District (4) 27. Write (4,1,4)

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1. Towards the back (9) 2. Main entrance (5,4) 4. Bap (4) 5. Tendency (5) 6. Precious metal (6) 7. Back (4) 9. Opens wide (5) 11. Loaning of money (5) 12. Medieval dance (9) 13. Joined in affection (4,5) 17. Birds (5) 19. Stop (4,2) 22. Cave-dweller (5) 23. Above (4) 24. Smile (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

3. Musical carthorse, perhaps (9) 8. Some clear sounds for listeners (4) 9. There would be universal hostility if it came (6,3) 10. Something the landlord will have learnt afresh (6) 11. Circulate, so to speak (5) 14. Join the French to confuse (5) 15. Over-disposed to wander (4) 16. Report that can't be faulted (5) 18. A fall gives work to the doctor (4) 20. Was a possessive type? (5) 21. Out of practice and lacking polish (5) 24. Possibly avenge part of Switzerland (6) 25. Bad actors? (4-5) 26. A minor lottery seen in retrospect (4) 27. Write to tell salesmen to stop selling a certain article? (4,1,4)

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1. Direction for guardians? (9) 2. Usually it's the best of the entries (5,4) 4. List in two ways (4) 5. A strike about a sailor may be hard to break (5) 6. Some loose change for a pirate (6) 7. Leaders won't bring it up (4) 9. Looks at the pages being turned (5) 11. A matter of extreme interest to the lender (5) 12. Only a rude sort of song and dance! (9) 13. How cardplayers showed affection? (4,5) 17. Pacific fliers (5) 19. Stop a vehicle going up and down (4,2) 22. Spirit used in petrol lighters (5) 23. Finished with a surplus? (4) 24. Smile, though partly chagrined (4)