Double Crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS 1 Small items of furniture in Arab homes? (7) 5 Even pipers follow high scores (7) 9 What won’t wait in meditated state? (4,3,4) 10 Communist state lost a green reporter (3) 11 Number near the edges of defence is swelling (4) 12 Fool is confusing a cent with financial support (10) 14 Heart starter hidden in beef makes mine a Chinese dish! (4,4) 15 Vent is damaging surround (6) 17 Stick helium in nuclear reactor (6) 18 Dip in feathers and go off (8) 21 Indolent sort flouted rule, to take the chair (5-5) 22 Prey turned pale green at the head (4) 24 One-eyed and oddly absent when born (3) 25 Putting in a new order after a ringer rang out of order (11) 26 Collusion in the region sounds a warning (7) 27 Ungainly waddler is the one falling behind (7) DOWN 1 Settled on a devil, having detailed the devilish (7) 2 Three met death to battle those extremely wellequipped for battle (5,2,3,5) 3 Have an inclination towards the angular (4) 4 It’s a disc, slipped and cruelly inflicting pain (8) 5 Short voyage by way of 7-down points (6) 6 Rank and inflamed after consuming uneaten parts (10) 7 Crossing a line in conquest is neither here nor there (15) 8 Subordinate issue (7) 13 Theatre manage might promise air-conditioning (10) 16 Function with a system of cogwheels that are very worn (3-5) 17 Costa Rican capital stripped rich of some of their guts (7) 19 Like a hippie to lay a quarter on pledge (3,4) 20 Fergie put up with small badger (6) 23 Shane Warne had trimmed down once more (4)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS 1 Leave out, omit (7) 5 Roll of hair gathered at the back of the head (7) 9 Ponder, reflect upon (11) 10 Support for a golf ball (3) 11 Uncommon (4) 12 Existing from the earliest times (10) 14 Capable of being touched (8) 15 Mawkishness (6) 17 Memorised (6) 18 Impetus to keep moving (8) 21 Great ape (10) 22 Excretory opening (4) 24 Female member of a religious order (3) 25 Curious, prying (11) 26 Perfumed toilet water (7) 27 Small bunch of flowers (7) DOWN 1 Citation from a larger work (7) 2 Hostile, belligerent (15) 3 Taken advantage of (4) 4 Adroitly, deftly (8) 5 Unpleasantly sticky or moist (6) 6 Comment that breaks down reserve at a social gathering (10) 7 In spite of the fact (15) 8 Syringes (7) 13 Abducting (10) 16 Humorist (8) 17 Brief and to the point (7) 19 Authority, upper hand (7) 20 One and only (6) 23 Prejudice, partiality (4)