DFA Cryptic Crossword

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

1 Standing-room. 9 Occiput. 10 Cistern. 11 Bungalows. 12 Hotel. 13 Drake. 14 Stampeded. 16 Abysmally. 18 Torso. 20 Enter. 22 Eternally. 24 Swahili. 25 Treacle. 26 Spring onions.

1 Secondary. 2 Appease.

3 Ditto. 4 Necessary. 5

Rose hip.

6 Overt. 7 Morbid. 8 Angled. 14 Soldering. 15 Derelicts.

16 At ease. 17 Martini. 18 Tangelo. 19 Oxygen. 21 Tramp. 23 Eaten.

ACROSS

1 Knockout blow form drink served by bunnies? (6,5)

9 Idealised country where American leaders curb acrid elements (7)

10 Rodent circling tree, making a den (7) 11 Coining expression to be in disguise (9) 12 New head stuck in opening of transplant patient? (5)

13 Weeds out crop (5)

14 Green’s colour shown in building material (9)

16 Flies out to proclaim the saviour (9) 18 English course for bravehearted Celt (5) 20 Minister made sure to follow national leader (5)

22 A duo’s hero played in remote filling station (9)

25 Lacking closure in neurotic state before confinement (2,5)

26 Individual T shirt? (7)

27 Because everyone retires in the highest degree (2,3,3,3)

DOWN

Use the old can opener in celery dish (7) 2 Gradually achieved through academic qualifications (2,7)

3 Middle Eastern air-conditioning with Chinese energy (5)

4 Dissolute emperor kept back father and actor (9)

5 Well-known to give approval about time limits (5)

6 Greedily eat the onion stew, without quite finishing it (3,4)

7 Impresario put on Indian dress (4)

8 Even the most rigorous of the puzzle setters accept greenback (8)

13 Superb species to finish under cover (8) 14 Prove unlucky with love in little city (9) 15 Come into conflict with Sam’s newfangled religion (5,4)

17 Class hearty goulash as baby food (7) 19 Revolution permitted some lines of poetry (7)

21 Medical treatment when laid up with some lameness (5)

23 Some of the church said ‘I will’ (5)

24 Sets great store on food (4)