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1 Speech sounds off on the contents of photographs (9) 6 Smooths the rough sea with the rest inside (5) 9 First of all, sprays tart with perfume (5) 10 One readily adapting each lemon variety (9) 11 Lift grandmother and lack everything in the world (6,3,5) 13 Company’s turn to discharge influential network (7) 15 A rental disagreement with the Roman church (7) 16 Neat cut through square leg antagonised some (7) 19 Charge for carrying or drawing, say, in pen (7) 21 Repel if waiters reused emergency equipment (4-10) 24 Supervisor set up a perch beside unit (9) 25 Miss being at the heart of a band-aid solution (5) 26 Processed pelts had a nap (5) 27 State had seen tense standoff (9) 1 Spooked apes with car horn and toy weapon (3,7) 2 To stay to the end gave us total resolution (7) 3 Great lake containing single bird’s nest (5) 4 Learning, at school, that incorporated little girl (2,5) 5 Cast an eye over boy raised in disgrace (7) 6 Time before roof beam and henceforth (4,5) 7 Plant second large component inside measuring device (7) 8 Crooned by star before midnight (4) 12 Buries tread in the room in-between (10) 14 Finding employment to stick to after mountain climbing (9) 17 Meet air-conditioned state in the gulf (7) 18 Happen to be the number at the game (4,3) 19 Tank went after Jersey and Guernsey, in short (7) 20 Schemes of work peter out in a pneumatic housing (7) 22 Roam through the sierra (5) 23 Dab hands at cards (4) 1 Card game also called pontoon (9) 6 Mediterranean nation (5) 9 Throttle (5) 10 In the highest position (9) 11 Goose liver spread (4,2,4,4) 13 Type of English cheese (7) 15 Rides fast (7) 16 Wrap up, swathe (7) 19 Large, daisy-like flower (7) 21 An aircraft’s black box (6,8) 24 Happening every three years (9) 25 Alpine region of Austria and Italy (5) 26 Sift (5) 27 River and state in the central US (9) Across: - 1 Powder monkey. 9 Ineffectual. 10 Gut. 11 Leaf. 12 Appetising. 14 Overhang. 15 Typhus. 18 Deeply. 20 Magnetic. 23 Guidelines. 24 Calm. 26 Moa. 27 Gate-crasher. 28 Chiropractor. 1 Budget tourist (10) 2 Child brought into the family (7) 3 Work bread (5) 4 Water-bearing layer of rock (7) 5 Author of The Jungle Book (7) 6 Uneven; unconventional (9) 7 Green tropical fruit (7) 8 Abominable snowman (4) 12 Light shoe with a canvas upper (10) 14 Industry, assiduity (9) 17 Fox-like (7) 18 Lover of his country (7) 19 Mischievous troublemaker (7) 20 Bears, tolerates (7) 22 Bizarrely unconventional (5) 23 Small trucks (4) Down: - 1 Preface. 2 Waft. 3 Escaping. 4 Mauled. 5 Nullifying. 6 English. 7 Girlhood. 8 Stag. 13 Challenger. 16 Sycamore. 17 Valencia. 19 Epitaph. 21 Teacher. 22 Big top. 23 Gums. 25 Gait. BRIAN May wishes Freddie Mercury was still alive so he could “see all the great stuff ” being done in his memory.
The former Queen frontman passed away from complications with Aids at the age of 45 in 1991, and his band mate Brian has said he would have loved to see the work being done by the band to keep his memory alive.
“I wish Freddie was around to see all this great stuff at the moment but we dedicated a blue plaque to him at his home where he lived as a little boy and I made a speech and we also named an asteroid after him so he’s up there in the stars. The Asteroid Freddie Mercury will always be there.”
Since 2011, the We Will Rock You hit-makers have collaborated with singer Adam Lambert as Queen + Adam Lambert on several tours, but Brian, 69, as said there’re “no plans” to get the vocalist in the studio for an album. – Bang Showbiz