Crossword 2675

ACROSS

1 A motor vehicle designed to carry sick or injured people (9) 5 Perspiration (5) 7 Regret (3)

9 Be victorious (3)

10 Of a disease predicted to lead to death, slowly; incurable (8)

13 Make amends (5) 14 Mentally deranged (3) 16 Get on one’s high _ (5) 17 An aircraft driven by jet propulsion (3) 19 Inebriated (5)

21 Small pieces of coloured paper thrown at weddings (8) 24 Gleam (3)

25 Jewel (3)

26 A condominium building or apartment (5) 27 Tiresome by reason of length, slowness or dullness (9)

DOWN

1 Of or resembling a gland (7) 2 One’s spouse (6,4)

3 Not to know someone from _ (4)

4 Extreme Drug Resistance Assay (4)

5 Mass of bees that has left a hive to make a new home (5) 6 Repartee (3)

8 The two inner and longer bones of the forearm (5) 11 To withdraw a statement as invalid or unjustified (7) 12 Civil Law: prohibitory acts or decrees made by courts (10) 15 _ Walker, activist, poet and author of The Colour

Purple (5)

17 Voyage (7)

18 The capital of Japan (5) 20 No Abnormality Detected (3) 22 Neglect to include (4)

23 A small ornamental case (4)