CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Space between corbels turned by him into cloaca (13)

9. Damage may be merited – not without heart, though (9)

10. How to bury one in mountain territory (5)

11. May be prone to falsehood (5)

12. Talk of what to write to CID ain’t wrong (9)

13. It is attractive as net put out with 3 (8)

15. Vulgar, sentimental and thick, Society can be (6)

18. One is mad to be off one’s curved support (6)

20. It brings about a sound reduction (8)

23. In India a messenger has Capris to turn around (9)

24. Francis brought home by one successfully accomplishing task (5)

25. The dullness of nimbus (5)

26. Boisterous play as opposed to low, deceptive turns (4,5)

27. Purse and a tune that can be pensioned off (13)

DOWN

1. In which the malleus is responsible for idle dream (6,3)

2. Otherwise nip plant favoured by the Siamese (7)

3. Chilling the sugar coating (5)

4. With six deliveries completed it’s OTT (8)

5. Start fighting the onset of disease (6)

6. Likely to copy one Tim wrote up: Evita, perhaps (9)

7. Twins, it turns out, may be blockheads (7)

8. There’s an element of right in a blessing (5)

14. Solved the mystery of how bad weather turned fine (7,2)

16. Unsentimental son had red leanings (9)

17. Resident when working, there’s means of subsistence at home (6-2)

19. Goatlike antelope has endlessly comic potential (7)

21. Shy object one can get butter and milk from (7)

22. There’s a different version of this Book (6)

23. Palm tree given a hot drink (5)

24. Job one may have making uranium trinket (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Superimpose 8. Lightens 9. Over

10. Angry 13. Epic 16. Away 17. Fall 18. Hums 20. Ledge 24. Note

25. Strainer 26. Penetrating

Down 2. Urge 3. Eaten 4. Inner 5. Ozone 6. Slot machine 7. Bricklayers

11. Grail 12. Yield 14. Peat 15. Warm 19. Stern 21. Enter 22. Graft 23. Anon