CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
For today’s solutions, text CLUE followed by the clue (eg: ‘CLUE 1 Down’) to 53307
Across
1 Lament, say, free to return (5). 4 Northern pilot keeps good one plotting the course (9). 9 Rotten moneymaker working at game (9). 10 Quits meetings, lacking time (5). 11 Spy contravened urge to disguise (10,5). 12 With wine, endlessly watch game (6). 14 Supported with second drink, and passed on (8). 17 Current regulator rates hot novel (8). 19 Wander about to secure whatsit (6). 22 I engrave pricier suspect garden climber (8,7). 24 Stuff without energy is the best part (5). 25 Ad-lib is going in to become better (9). 26 Passive treatments happen again around street,
with points following (4,5). 27 Strain to get large plant back around ten (5).
Down
1 He’d be a cur otherwise, this assailant (9). 2 Made new leftist papers (5). 3 I emerge again as one settled elsewhere (7). 4 Put it up in middle of day, as a whim (6). 5 Sell oriental tat fraudulently, generating drawn-out quarrel (8). 6 Unusual danger around a Caribbean state (7). 7 Unsteadily moving with support, let ET ring again (9). 8 Make adjustment to Easter recipe without asking first (5). 13 Cut back on support, in gloom (9). 15 With power to clean, get rented accommodation (9). 16 Demon that’s free from constraint (8). 18 Involved with earthquake, miss ice-breaker (7). 20 Sea-dweller is unusually mean individual (7). 21 Investigates optical equipment (6). 22 Cleric contending with one roadster (5). 23 Model keeping one in state of balance (5).