WH Crossword

ACROSS 1 In the style of the pilgrims’ tales by the way (10) 6 Me ‘n’ you heard 21 (4) 9 The preface might be OK in verse (5) 10 Custom in the type of school where they lived together (9) 12 Sort of carpet not usually provided for someone who hasn’t a bean! (7, 6) 14 One who is about to see that things are right is a spectator (8) 15 Cicala performing in lyric style (6) 17 The doctor’s animal was found in the city (6) 19 Horseman with an offhand manner (8) 21 Might be 6 or what comes after the repast perhaps (3, 4, 2, 4) 24 The European maestro was made of a rubbery substance (9) 25 Determined to attack (3, 2) 26 Change over feet (4) 27 Undergraduate’s first ancestors which became mistresses (10)

DOWN 1 Deal successfully with an outer garment (4) 2 Stimulation caused by all first university orals (7) 3 Man in charge of goal post is made to ring the bell! (13) 4 Remembered to phone again (8) 5 Meat dish as the cook prepared it (5) 7 Wriggling toes in a Baltic country (7) 8 Put below the music to emphasise it (10) 11 Exclamation heard by unwell sailor on first class ship when ‘e gets given fish soup! (13) 13 When I sit on them they cost me time somehow (10) 16 Traveller visits a street a long distance off with some hesitation (8) 18 He composed at Manse (7) 20 Passivity I retain somehow (7) 22 Member has nothing to dance about (5) 23 Places where one might get called to or from the bar! (4)