Weekend crossword
ACROSS
1 Gets detached and proves successful
(5,3)
5 Supported or kept in an outhouse (6) 9 Posh crib I designed for church office
(9)
11 Greedily swallow a round — revolting
(3,2)
12 It shortens discussion — many at
home taken in by the deception (3,10) 14 Overseas currency is right also (4) 15 Each of these is a socialite, but a
worker among backward children (10) 17 An item that’s special (10)
19 Map left in vessel (4)
22 The main attraction, the sailor, often
he’s hours in broadcast (4,2,3,4) 24 Cease to hold permit to travel (3,2) 25 Suitability is clear, even though
disguised (9)
26 E’s covered in filth — it’s most dreadful
(6)
27 A tree’s so gnarled — you need shrubs
(35)
DOWN
1 Loaves of bread for penpals? (4) 2 Trouble over fool overturning soldier’s
eating utensil (4,3)
3 Cakes and icecream cornet in the
steamer (6)
4 He hopes to get a rich wife for a song
— watch (76)
6 Prison causes depression, always (8) 7 Salesman isn’t required to put a new
coat on? (7)
8 Ring about English newspapers
causing dejection (10) 10 Reckoned to be supine? That’s a
deliberate fib (10,3)
13 Poles revolutionary in religious belief,
like sneakers? (55)
16 Strict king and prince love us (8) 18 Clergyman taken round a nuclear
installation? (7)
20 Obtain, in records, animal noises (7) 21 Dancing dervish losing head makes one
tremble (6)
23 Busy workers, in a tribe especially (4)