Weekend crossword
ACROSS
1 Horse, one that’s crazy for Hazel’s fruit
(33)
4 Burn one of the French guessing games
(8)
9 One rules there must be no backsliding
in demo? (7)
11 Song about people in a former Soviet
republic (7)
12 Despondent doctor strives to make
naughty films (4,6)
13 Talk head off, making a point (4) 15 What dieters’ food should be, or local’s
wine, I fancy (3,2,8)
18 Secluded school, or nonnationalised
part of industry (7,6)
20 Shrewd chief (4)
21 Pinter rambling lazily, without fear (10) 24 End sound as a bell, eating less (7) 25 Encourage female comprehending
eastern art (7)
26 What’s inside pleases (8)
27 Very little time to get support (6)
DOWN
1 Temporary lodging, something that
alarms a Scottish clan? (8) 2 African peoples prohibit leaders of
trades unions (5)
3 Not sentimental, I cut Norman out (10) 5 To throw a number almost half of this,
that’s bliss! (6,2,5)
6 Dowdy woman, topless, showing
posterior (4)
7 Row and resent rotten service for
guests? (63)
8 Strikes bringing end to work in bridges
(6)
10 Possess a thing, as it were, and toss
sleeplessly? (4,1,3,5)
14 South American flower, one that splits
a dish? (5,5)
16 Obliterate the dilapidated wine place
(4,5)
17 Coloured beam of light one used in Civil
Defence (8)
19 Associated with minstrels, except
Richard, we hear (6)
22 One nondrinker in party gets the same
again (5)
23 Yearns audibly, as they say, for sticky
stuff (4)