CRYPTICCROSSWORD Yesterday’s solutions:

ACROSS

3 A mistake of supervision (9) 8 To exist is the reverse of wicked (4) 9 Company on the move indicates conditions for racing (4,5) 10 Lawyer serving drinks? (6) 11 Plaster city? (5) 14 Charm for a length of time (5) 15 Spiritual charge involving healing (4) 16 Ground of the Arthurian legend (5) 18 Extreme aims? (4) 20 Enough beer to get round politician (5) 21 Active inclusion of a decorative branchlet (5) 24 Held in a warehouse in Dorset? Wrong! (6) 25 The state of the match (9) 26 Observed some Chinese engineers (4) 27 Model for top poetry composition (9)

DOWN

1 Blast area for its white stone (9) 2 Business expenses incomprehensible to bosses? (9) 4 Conceited one among the leaders (4) 5 Spirit shown by graduate in dance (5) 6 Sarcastic about unyieldingness when in charge? (6) 7 Such a clue could be thin (4) 9 Left outlet for clever story (5) 11 Role played by youth leader in faction (5) 12 Adherent is one to drink beer (9) 13 Fed up, finish with worker who stands in the dock (9) 17 Holds party without par, being rash (5) 19 Ghostly pluck? (6) 22 Let in as a concession? (5) 23 2 singularly rearranged 11 across (4) 24 Cut up with pointed instruments (4)

Across: 1 Bear. 3 Carbines. 8 Acts. 9 Hoisting. 11 Three Wise Men. 13 Radios. 14 Switch. 17 Headquarters. 20 Oligarch. 21 Pool. 22 Battered. 23 Star.

Down: 1 Boasters. 2 Attired. 4 Atonic. 5 Basketwork. 6 Naive. 7 Sign. 10 Secondrate. 12 Whistler. 15 The cost. 16 Muscle. 18 Edict. 19 Comb.