CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1.

4.

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

15.

16.

19.

21.

22.

24.

25.

26.

27.

How it will pour, the pail! (6)

A taxi back to America you can count on (6)

Court hearing about four of little importance (7) Betray awareness of change of vowels in Latin (3,2) Clothing obtained with backing of the South (4) Bridle found at edge of pavement, one is told (4)

A great success for a shot on-target (3)

An even result to depict in pencil (4)

Bother to make some of us suffer (4)

Keats’s Grecian one given the runaround (3)

I’ve been made to return at fifty, which is wicked (4) Soft feathers are not so expensive (4)

Bright in mind, I could lose nothing when upset (5) Hail dog exercised by gentleman in Catalonia (7) Speculation by ambassador in Conservative situation (6) Game in which love will go for nothing (6)

DOWN

1.

2.

3.

5.

6.

7.

8.

14.

17.

18.

20.

23.

Bet Ethel built it in order to face up to unpleasantness (4,3,6) One winced without a cigar end to put out (7)

Put it out that the hour has arisen (4)

Soundly beat, or half beat, Socialist (8)

Bag a round for three singers (5)

Simulating piety as musician? Not so strange! (13)

Flew half abroad to treat with contempt (5)

It bears dates, it’s clear, and may be planted out (8) Dilated by son well used to it (7)

Vision of this is given up around 3rd August (5) Colourful shell can be turned over by the Engineers (5) Move a little to one side of ‘is privet (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Drawback 7. Range 8. Debacle 9. Visitor 10. Eels

12. Reliant 14. Ketchup 17. Asti 18. Precede 21. Scoured

22. Eagle 23. Follower

1. Dodges 2. Ambulant 3. Buck 4. Clever 5. Knit 6. Regret

7. Rustler 11. Athlete 13. Airscrew 14. Kipper 15. Presto

16. Tinder 19. Eggs 20. Foil

Down: