Crossword 2763

ACROSS

1 Turf (3)

3 The part or the land near the sea (5) 6 Grief-stricken (3)

8 Take part in noisy festivities (5)

9 Dilapidated (7)

10 Land consisting of marshes or swamps (8)

11 Lease, tariff (4)

14 Price (4)

15 A large farm outbuilding used for housing livestock or storing grain or hay (4) 17 Warm and snug (4)

18 A young domestic cock (8) 22 Relating to the palate (7) 23 Divide equally (5)

24 Drag (3)

25 Factual (5)

26 Past tense of run (3)

DOWN

1 It is the last _ that breaks the camel’s back (5)

2 Piece of turf cut out of the ground by a golf club (5) 3 Fall apart at the seams (8) 4 Erode (6)

5 Skill in handling delicate situations (4)

6 Place where liquor is sold illegally (7)

7 Poetic word for the sun (7) 12 Answering back, insolence (8) 13 Compartment for the pilot in an aircraft or spacecraft (7) 14 The law as established by the outcome of former cases (4,3)

16 Sharp bend or angle (6) 19 Governor (5)

20 To remain in bed late in the morning (3,2) 21 Heavenly body (4)