CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Confidence in number one false ruses can bring about (4-9)

9. Could be put along a cot having eight sides (9)

10. Some cheap, plentiful rennet (5)

11. Financially supports the central towers (5)

12. Old majority, not bust (6-3)

13. Not feeling safe at home, rescue may be needed (8)

15. It is real in makeup of one dimension (6)

18. Somehow heal previous spouse first, and let breath go (6)

20. The biggest craft on board, a Viking’s? (8)

23. In entering French inn, find brinjal (9)

24. Scottish child one found in a grainstore (5)

25. State whether he was spiritual leader of Islam (5)

26. Arch air one adopts around five for a mock serenade (9)

27. It could be Médoc, place of decay (13) DOWN

1. Accumulate reserve of farm animals on a tall building (9)

2. The word trestle is composed of them (7)

3. Vigilant watcher turned to sugar (5)

4. Legislators from the South aren’t so different (8)

5. A big wave may be used to flatten things (6)

6. Narrow escape from an object close to one (4,5)

7. Go and look round the unknown pole with Rex (7)

8. Pancake material (5)

14. Causing heat in the fair, colic may produce it (9)

16. Perhaps enter into the inability of letting it go (9)

17. No extreme musical direction made root of it (8)

19. Walked with difficulty, legs being tied (7)

21. When welfare cheque turns up, friend from France does paper-modelling (7)

22. Uation Edy left out of the show (6)

23. A course for turncoats (5)

24. Russian pancake, one pound (weight) in mixture (5)