Weekend Herald

Observer Everyman

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Across

1. Field covered with variety of shady shrubs (10)

6. Inspire scorn, dropping name (4)

9. Pass westward around good island, showing sense (5)

10. Sweet advance, seizing moment with run before work (5,4)

12. Instrument in old saloon perhaps popular with audience initially (7)

13. Archives in care of king seized by revolution­aries (7)

14. Mountainee­r near muddy ground around tor? (6,7)

17. Story by bishop, weak, involving hesitation before church wine (13)

21. Potential row after daughter admitted to obsession (7)

22. Judge in revolution­ary period accepting part with resistance (7)

24. Extended barrier in eastern capital? Not on (9)

25. Grand number followed by odd pieces from ballet (5)

26. Carry toddler with energy (4)

27. Engine component about level with small handle (10)

Down

1. Large room, outstandin­g, sanctified (8)

2. Follow mother’s teaching (5)

3. Dodgy gear I continue selling (13)

4. Giant success? End up with hotel (7)

5. One in drama at sea left naval officer (7)

7. Picture in doorway catching shaft of light (9)

8. Rest with engineers present (6)

11. Discount large scam, coming up with goals and beginning to bear burden (2-6,5)

15. Commercial, in distortion of moral appeal, lacking skill (9)

16. Most acute pressure in parts over time (8)

18. Raised in Nazareth, gifted one with unyielding determinat­ion (7)

19. Lack of restraint in scrap (7)

20. Protest? It’s a thing (6)

23. Bone from bird endlessly conserved by volunteers (5)

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