Weekend crossword

1953

ACROSS 1 Neckwear, a turnedback bow

attracting tax (6)

4 Pair make forty (35)

9 Levelling firstclass type of pottery (6) 10 The craft of G&S — one can have it on

while washing up (8)

11 Beat pickle — it helps one to see in the

dark (9)

13 In the Empire, a sellout for supporting

picture (5)

14 Violet’s twice seen with a colleague

after study, with a merrymaking air (11) 18 Remind me to trot — goodness, twice! — round Rome, backwards

(3,2, 6)

21 Stones a friend set in rings (5) 22 Shocking blue t’turn producing

commotion (9)

24 Shut up, lad — I’m heartless pater and

I come first (8)

25 He’s crazy, an ego in a raincoat (6) 26 Come together against the extreme

edge (8)

27 Sounds like the CO? That’s it, in a

nutshell (6) DOWN 1 Singe a tuft of hair, it’s growing wild (8) 2 Defensive equipment for mother with

chaps in the pictures (8)

3 Every year one’s lost in void (5)

5 With hush and a soft bed one expects

some tricks (56)

6 Don’t sack the old city — it can be

used when there’s a blowout (5, 4) 7 One in dilapidated boots is a musician

(6)

8 Smoothly the archdeacon enters

cathedral city (6) 12 Off like a ripe cheese, flourishing (5, 6) 15 At home, only frozen water — it isn’t

fair (9)

16 Company newspapers and so on

(Northern) can be very funny (8)

17 The tip of my cane is missing, Albert —

it’s very strange (8)

19 What has twelve signs and about one

dozen over? (6)

20 River runs into a mountain lake: there’s

big fish there (6)

23 In practice the banger lacks glamour (5)