CRYPTIC Crossword
Complete the puzzle to reveal two solutions in the shaded squares relating to the picture clues.
PICTURE CLUES
8ac, 6ac, 26ac & 14ac & 15dn
ACROSS
1 Placing sand around to
create garden design (11) 6 See 8 Across 8,6,26 & 14ac Excited shy ant crazily in this TV show (3,3,3,4) 9 Dial a plum? In the London theatre? (9)
10 Can’t keep still for making gifted gin (9) 11 He took the whole world on his shoulders (5) 12 Intersects the hybrids ( 7)
14 See 8 Across
17 Second rate traitor was a spoilt child (4)
19 Car tour for the custodian ( 7) 22 Ease and allow to stand (3,2) 23 Angle rural properties for breeding livestock (4,5)
24 Carlo and Abel danced for a Spanish horseman (9) 25 Found on 23 (3)
26 See 8 Across
27 Let Mark back for illegal business (11)
DOWN
1 Japanese plastic surgeon could make a terrible mistake! (4,4)
2 Unfortunately oxen trod close by (4,4)
3 Mix arias up for foreign domestics (2,5)
4 Being sick and go back I see as invalid reasoning ( 7) 5 Indebted? He will if you won’t (9)
6 Where to look further (6) 7 The failure of self made miseducation (6) 13 Tear the bark off a mace or where something else is taken off (5,4) 15 Ratters get weekend off and boldly go (4,4)
16 No oil around electronics for the moon (8)
18 Get the fat back from the cheese to make material ( 7) 19 Cossack wears around priest’s clothing ( 7)
20 The Maori, around one fifty I see, returns, which is illegal (6)
21 The animal lodgings are unchangeable (6)