CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. 5. 7. 8. 10. 11. 13. 15. 18. 19. 22. 23. 24. 25.

Young horse’s hoof comes down on soft-leafed plant (9) In short, a place to get a drink (3)

Is enthusiastic about a preposition (4)

Ross, avid to supply counsellors (8)

Likeness to part trio might assume (8)

It’s a bit early in the day for a poet (4)

Settles permanent provision on son we’d turned out (6) The race for one’s working life to date (6)

First beer reaches the edge and will almost overflow (4) Ends wild disorder and gets cheated (8)

Infant sponsored by gold I’d distributed round church (8) Being healthy, will soundly call from a distance (4) This, to itself, is seen to be in agreement (3)

Is introduced by a gift to the editor (9)

DOWN 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 9. 12. 14. 16. 17. 18. 20. 21.

Peril PC gets into may make him lame (7)

A more recent way to alter it (5)

Order one to adorn it this way (6)

Shadow the stem of a note (4)

It may help one forward to advertise it (7)

A nib’s taken out to wash in it (5)

Warning sound will increase by end of April (5) Hurts one to be at them, taking assiduous care (5) Created lewd din that will gradually die away (7) Paint and add reel to it (3,4)

Maximum number of strokes one will get twice a day (6) It can produce a call for a long, slender bead (5)

The smallest amount that may turn stale (5)

Craft is part British, I perceive (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Parrot 4. Critic 9. Obviate 10. Floor 11. Oast 12. Plus

13. Gas 15. Deed 16. Ants 19. Ore 21. Dole 22. Leah 24. Ariel

25. Modicum 26. Exhume 27. Vellum

1. Proportionate 2. Revised 3. Oral 5. Refusing 6. Thong

7. Chrysanthemum 8. Newly 14. Pendulum 17. Stencil 18. Slime

20. Erith 23. Adze

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