30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Head to run, having sworn

(5,4) 8 The equal of a nobleman?

(4) 9 Giving musical entertainment together (2,7) 10 Complete anger after net

broken (6) 11 Deficient in cash or time (5) 14 In the end row nowhere, and

perish in the water (5) 15 Herb is a wise man, of course

(4) 16 Ray is deflected in the

country (5) 18 He consumes American beer

— not half! (4) 20 Cut the hair off hares? (5) 21 12 are half asleep taking 1

from 4 (5) 24 Wager everything included

in dance-drama (6) 25 Trailing part of dress held

firmly in express? (4,5) 26 Top driver heads right for

tree (4) 27 Lightning intelligence? (4,5)

DOWN

1 Widely dispersed when the banquet was uncovered (6,3) 2 Demolished bad story indeed

(9) 4 Initially nothing over a single

counts nothing (4) 5 He is out one half-inch (5) 6 Happens to be officer

commanding dogs (6) 7 Defector would get coat after

such a revolution (4) 9 Were prisoners flattened in

them? (5) 11 Seductive wailer? (5) 12 Happen to assume position (4,5) 13 Final profit from fishing? (3,6) 17 A bird on the dam? (5) 19 Sure to make ways (6) 22 How loner may become a member (5) 23 He is muddle-headed with beer

(4) 24 Pieces of the limb, it seems, remained (4)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Peek; 3 Confined; 8 Sure; 9 Enlisted; 11 Pitch and toss; 13 Recipe; 14 Settle; 17 No difference; 20 Spenders; 21 Girt; 22 Roadways; 23 Fray.

Down: 1 Passport; 2 Erratic; 4 Owning; 5 Faint heart; 6 Notes; 7 Duds; 10 Shop-window; 12 Recently; 15 Tangier; 16 Affray; 18 Opera; 19 User.