Weekend crossword

ACROSS

1 About a politician at home with a

swollen toe, tented (7,3)

6 Platform’s too short for a flower girl (4) 10 Gave me collywobbles? Diana has said

I’m right (9,4,2)

11 ‘‘L’’ at the prow of Jason’s ship marks

slow movement (5)

12 Stop work, have a meal, as the band

begins to play (7,2)

13 Catch a beginner in pantomime role —

execrable! (8)

15 Where chalk goes in ball game, just at

the right time (2,3)

18 What the cow says about ‘‘tuberculin

tested’’ device (5)

19 Thoroughly wet start to weekend —

day off, eat out (8)

21 Hangeron in maturity coming to a very

quiet close (9)

24 Weird ale, that’s to say with no head on

it (5)

25 Short tacks that can be painful for

joggers? (7,8)

26 Small fish that sounds like six across

(4)

27 Paris, for instance, or Rome, spoilt,

changed (10)

DOWN

1 Hint to embrace divine pupil? Do so,

closely (6)

2 Intended taking in ’is creditor, the

scoundrel (9)

3 Unrestrained in elation? Wrong, it’s

extremely painful (7,7)

4 Suspect visitors dispense with tee (5) 5 Experienced aunt’s heart is set on the

river (9)

7 I’ll ruin your rose and the other fellow’s,

after early April (5)

8 Fish climbing jetty is more likely to drop

off (8)