2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

3. Bird has husks not very long (9) 8. Graduate near to infant (4) 9. Interrupt quick meal (9)

10. Strange duel editor dodged (6)

11. Debar whiskers (5)

14. Heading for just claim (5)

15. Intend to be stingy (4)

16. Suitable cargo-boat for vagrant (5) 18. Inviolable hiding-place for instrument (4) 20. A flower emerged (5)

21. In turn I obey a weeper (5)

24. Rail at rope with noose (6)

25. No backing given to wretched money-maker in game (9)

26. Heath to anchor (4)

27. Foolish but unconscious (9)

Down

1. An aim that doesn’t colour the facts (9) 2. Kidnapping of theologian in sale (9) 4. Exacting, not giving (4) 5. Trumped-up affair about a picture, maybe (5) 6. Ailing, but still member of company (6) 7. Put off actors (4)

9. Produce a note in a vegetable (5) 11. Stiffen a couple (5)

12. He may well bank on interest (9) 13. Catalogue showing creative imagination? (9) 17. Father goes on pony in reverse.

How heathenish! (5)

19. In a nutshell it must be the acid test (6) 22. Trivial heathen god gets round Nineveh first (5)

23. That’s the end of your game, comrade! (4) 24. Behold the ship showing a deficit (4)