TELEGRAPH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 Being enthusiastic with detailed planning after European Union (10) 6 Tiny amount of holiday in spring (4) 10 This person wearing jumper is amorous type (5) 11 Writer from old days you style vacuously as flat (9) 12 What could produce fir cone (7) 13 Get beaten in knockout competition but reduce the deficit (5,2) 14 Emergency vehicle dodges around beset by environmentalists (5,7) 18 Such an observation could construe Mars location (12) 21 Nothing in Heart’s broadcast for range of listeners? (7) 23 Husband restrained by hard time had an idea (7) 24 Stand in sea in disguise that may be put on to fish (9) 25 Strike covers area and island somewhere in the Caribbean (5) 26 Women’s group – mum’s desire (4) 27 Snoop around about small storage space in part of church (10)

Down

1 Concentrate? It’s hard after new member of comedy duo comes around (6) 2 Keen to have gold fabric on holy books (6) 3 Useless person that could conceivably make Waterloo subject to flooding (4-3-7) 4 One with special powers ahead with the Queen carried by prancing horse (9) 5 Old Greek trapped by overambition – Icarus (5) 7 Junior doctors in hospital warning about treatment (8) 8 Break in spring in lock (8) 9 Olympic cyclist’s father makes a stack in Scotland (3,3,3,2,3) 15 Like a coward clutching contents of till – innocent? (9) 16 What violinist will do before and after performance (4,1,3) 17 Inexperienced traitors shot up by southern defence system (4,4) 19 I get in flashing light (6) 20 Tear into pen like a zebra (6) 22 One making effort right to break rank (5)