TELEGRAPH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 Kicked around a match official having forgotten trainers? (10) 6 Camel has such a bad mood (4) 9 An American coin I collected, very old (7) 10 Get stuck going round flipping motorway diversion (7) 12 Medal for person succeeding with first clue (8,5) 14 Most of the ethnic group in SE European region (6) 15 Crooked conman smuggling fashionable spice (8) 17 Sort of sin of the flesh – I’d slipped back into that (8) 19 French dear possessing reasonably good necklace (6) 22 Potters around these items of furniture having a nap (7,6) 24 I retain curious resistance to change (7) 25 Rouse to action gathering right support (7) 26 Sets down songs (4) 27 After teaching degree, lecturer initially gets teased about being scruffy (10)

Down

1 Carry animal (4) 2 Car going round the City in rally (7) 3 Dawn perhaps before insect appears – something to amuse children? (6,7) 4 Alternative work about to keep it up (6) 5 Former wife is supported by smallest bit of money allowed, that’s clear (8) 7 What many students wear in university class (7) 8 Liberal entertained by country folk’s friendly remark (10) 11 Every boxer has this dietary supplement (6,7) 13 Put ingredients in place to make whisky without stirring (5-5) 16 The French old city energy fed prize-winner (8) 18 Where birds hatch eggs, sheltering fine over railway (7) 20 Bird of prey, among quickest relatively (7) 21 Sounds like the people to put a rocket up former Arab leader (6) 23 Vegetable popular primarily in South of France (4)