CROSSWORD

Puzzle No 1069 Clues across

1. Rod left to prosper (2,4) 4. Little sibling has sat back inside showing complete inactivity (6) 9. Express displeasure with Republican leader, a vulgar philistine (4) 10. Help one man with disorder: it’s amazing (10) 11. Where you can go to hit it off just right (2,1,3) 12. Start to lounge in cushions while using the canoe (8) 13. Occasional fan of eccentric academic (3,3,2) 15. The less-common are in luxury vehicle (5) 16. Get right into precious things to see sources (5) 18. It includes blokes eating cannabis being powerless (8) 21. Boy poorly, eating not as much. Turn then to wish him good health (5,3) 22. Head of police in squalid surroundings is fast (6) 24. Appear rash, run amok, use different words (10) 25. Tailor is said repeatedly to be mediocre (2-2) 26. Attempt to embrace death in accordance with the latest fashion (6) 27. Pep pills that may help hold tongues? (6)

Clues down

1. Make the delivery and fall asleep (4,3) 2. The least favourable direction or way (5) 3. Pupil repaid with difficulty for having to interpret a speech on site you say? (3-4) 5. Revolutionary radical turned up on demand (2,5) 6. All-star production with me in it? Suspect there’s something wrong here (5,1,3) 7. Nuts might be turned on by this princess wearing a non-U spur (7) 8. Plan rude price change to make it very steep (13) 14. Storage arranged (minus GST) with room for high flying industry (9) 16. Valiant audacity by worker (7) 17. Mowed down by techy invention in South Dakota (7) 19. A step, stumbling out of bed, to make a collage (5-2) 20. Those who have a bare existence make daughter sit awkwardly in rising sun (7) 23. Result: three points at matriculation (5)