CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1. Bit of green land available to both sexes (6) 4. Is called for Michaelmas, say, by the editor (6)
9. How we run AA without being conscious of doing it (7)
10. What bowler is not allowed to do is work as a potter (5)
11. As one of two, will link one town with another (4)
12. Take a meal from friend in entertaining (4) 13. The French get one a garland of flowers (3) 15. There is merriment to be had in a partsong (4)
16. One may hurt one’s toe, leaving it in one’s chequebook (4)
19. An animal shelter that was waterborne (3) 21. Grow weary of the way one used to dress one’s hair (4)
22. Snip right in and be discourteously short (4) 24. What one will do when at the wheel is a stroke with the bat (5)
25. For carrying coal, send a ship to the bottom (7)
26. Is showy in wear, like a frock with yoketop (6)
27. Room at the top Bohemian artist might fill? (6)
DOWN
1. Revoked the code ad-men turn around (13)
2. How men gain by changing the significance of it (7)
3. Examination of morals, not including the manuscript (4)
5. Earnest application to 12 in the vestibule (8)
6. An edible fungus from elm, or it might be (5) 7. It is of premier importance in address (7,6) 8. Send the money for one term, perhaps (5) 14. If fidgety, will presumably work more (8) 17. Stormily utter something like a blast of wind (7) 18. Twelve, if squared, are too fat (5) 20. Something cutting is done before one can say it (5)
23. The animal that turns up with mother (4)