The Southland Times

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 1. Plug in here an item of hose, and French (6) 4. They drain the deck one does for (8) 9. European national puts an end to the bug (6) 10. Administer sound thrashing, and presumably vote Socialist (8) 12. He’s powerful, rich, and makes a curt plot-change (9) 13. Sound hooter enheartene­d by one (5) 14. Substitute marrying man given space – no seat, though (8-4) 18. The way liner may go, Pip? An English variation! (8-4) 21. ‘Our revels now are _____’ (The Tempest) (5) 22. Family members one tells around four (9) 24. Coloured kerchief for girl following the musicians (8) 25. Material for kindling some Latin derangemen­t (6) 26. Break up and go away, Sirs, with deep disturbanc­e of order (8) 27. In a stack the man mimicked (6) DOWN 1. Put name to letters written: this shows where (8) 2. A commercial letter that goes the rounds (8) 3. Love poet’s inspiratio­n to follow the age (5) 5. Padded sofa where cows graze to NE of Wales? (12) 6. Church chant such as ‘Dreary the Steppe’? (9) 7. Amorous god of love and spring: tick the ends off (6) 8. In America, a carriage SW of London (6) 11. Super progenitor­s a generation farther back! (12) 15. Deprive one of water at Ryde? He’d arrange that! (9) 16. Divided, like the booty, and behaved like Michelange­lo when awake (6,2) 17. Caesar initially made certain of being blamed (8) 19. Duck-footed spider-craft on the ocean floor (6) 20. Aphrodite’s love, a university fellow is (6)

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