30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 They voice the feelings of the wheelwrights! (9) 8 Club used for evening out (4) 9 Passing places! (5-4) 10 Reduction allowed for piece of meat (6) 11 Kind of shock caused by outer casing (5) 14 Ahab’s adversary in the main (5) 15 Direction to take from Battersea Street (4) 16 Travelled to the ring for a cattle-show (5) 18 The deer took off, we hear (4) 20 Learn different description of gland (5) 21 A mess is sorted out when the dressmaker produces them (5) 24 Policy of improvement about the bench (6) 25 Teller who will make a rare count (9) 26 & 17Dn Imposed discipline and retained command (4,5) 27 The principal’s voice inflection is a grave feature (9)

DOWN

1 Is the engineer manufacturing spare parts involved in this? (9) 2 In which opposing sides are engaged in rows (4-5) 4 No prosaic character (4) 5 Put up with this craft — what a sauce! (5) 6 Ingenious variety of bustle (6) 7 Some of the supercharged dynamos keep spinning (4) 9 Take off-putting action, but give way to another (5) 11 In the press I described opposing interests (5) 12 Its blades trim many other blades (4-5) 13 Lets a team achieve deadlock (9) 17 See 26 Across 19 & 23Dn Is this sailor married to a widow? (6,4) 22 Promote tuneful choral composition inside (5) 23 See 19 Down 24 Bear being decapitated — complete downfall is the result (4)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Pipe; 3 Manifold; 8 Over; 9 Port side; 11 Postponement; 13 Report; 14 Adroit; 17 Accidentally; 20 In one way; 21 Keep; 22 Outlying; 23 Flan.

Down: 1 Prospero; 2 Press-up; 4 Abound; 5 Intimidate; 6 Onion; 7 Drew; 10 Sportively; 12 Stay open; 15 Oil-well; 16 Detain; 18 Clout; 19 Dido.