CRYPTIC Crossword

PICTURE CLUES

13ac & 2dn & 19dn, 4 & 26ac

ACROSS

1 Beer I’m about to make muddy (6) 4 See 2 Down

9 G-string with no GST will leave a smile (4)

10 They are on the cards to be games of tennis (5,5) 11 Crazy? Nothing crazy just

✚ Complete the puzzle to reveal two solutions in the shaded squares relating to the picture clues. a head cold (6)

12 You can find him at will (8) 13 One of his characters was a fiend, Les (8)

15 Killed, say, frequently in poetry (3)

16 Intimidate an animal (3) 17 Grows more? Must be the mineral veins (8)

20 X’d (8)

22 Some people in the church at typewriters can be very talkative (6)

24 Feathers busted? – Won’t go any more (6,4)

25 Mass of golf and tennis shot (4)

26 See 2 Down

27 Got an X for half the clues (6)

DOWN

1 Yet it is not only read at the pub ( 7)

2 & 19dn, 4ac & 26ac Hung motor-cyclist spy “Finny”? Now for something completely different! (5,7,6,6) 3 About the exam mark – I will review it ( 7) 5 Furnish room in country house (5) 6 Comedy shown while you are sick? That will get your dander up (3,6) 7 Face back to the trunk for footwear ( 7) 8 Kid’s game is finished with a scrap (3,3) 14 An original bowling delivery that came from Manhattan (3,6)

16 Material from the Californian doctor

“Little Richard” ( 7)

17 If he is from the Southern states he is a good one (3,3) 18 A method in other words (singular) ( 7)

19 See 2 Down

21 Deer comes to a bend – is from Northern India (5) 23 Fleabag growled having some irritation (5)