Kropotkin

Across

1. Initially Jaques Tati is in command of the director in Agitation (11)

7. Diminutive man, one that could be fired (3)

9. Cannon and Bishops flee from car bomb (5)

10. Embracing Poles is uncommonly restful? Just the opposite! (9)

11. The smallest one seen running about in intern- ational match (9)

12. One who marks papers in Kosovo – terrible place to work in! (5)

13. Tear up ‘music’ made by The Stones (6)

15. The one playing poker in the Animal Husbandry Department? (8)

17. Put animals in yard, even though water runs through it (8)

18. Ravel composed about end of autumn, being fresh and youthful (6)

21. No beginner in study, hence has the advantage (3-2)

22. Midday English newspaper doesn’t have the descriptions of when it comes out (9)

24. Cut-out soldiers on duty – collecting? (9)

25. The Spanish recording company making ‘Fragrant Resin’ (5)

26. Although only one is needed for it, several conductors form a circuit (3)

27. Third across – perhaps the answer is ‘growers’ (11)

Down

1. Car accessory – something that lies on the road for the traveller using Atlantic (4,3)

Last week’s solution

()=included, []=excluded

Across:

1. Flying Scotsman {Dutchman} 9. P(r) eter-it 10. lla(n)no 12. N(AA)N 13. five(s-tone)s 15. opera(te)s 16. f-if-th[i]s

18. C(h)aron 20. ring spot 23. a day in lieu 24. true 26. coat-i 27. leisured 28. Going great gun-s

Down:

2. yar-dage 3. nit-s 4. straiten 5. out-let 6. split rings 7. against 8. house-sitter 11. insouciance 14. Carolin[g]ian 17. fire! fire! 19. Arapah-o

21. parvenu 22. o(l-d) lag 25. bunt

{fungus}

2. Letters that are fit to read? (15)

3. Bambi’s upset – got head chopped off and then the feet! (5)

4. Sales pitch in which one refers to passages (6)

5. Harriet gets upset about it: hospital not needed to excite an uncomfortable condition (8)

6. Young member of group followed this one to a French town, but not this one (9)

7. Book contains security apparently, or a description of it (6,2,7)

8. Get out of single job for vendor (4-3)

14. Patton is a lunatic? Of course! (9)

16. In order to be frugal, saver first quits university course (8)

17. Saw dog with lead wrapped round it (7)

19. Bob chasing 4 skittish girls way up north (7)

20. Two women share A. N. Other’s name (6)

23. Step down to get part of tyre (5)