CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
3 Musicians using carthorse to get around (9)
8 Good penalty (4)
9 Spaceman out to roast a nut? (9)
10 Fur the Queen takes to the pit (6)
11 Ringers for beautiful girls, say? (5)
14 The almost complete unhappiness of a skinflint! (5) 15 Merit a vase, say (4)
16 Cathy’s new boat (5)
18 Drams – little ones! (4) 20 Angry indignation on the Cape (5)
21 Where the enemy comes from? (5)
24 I’m in no position to be a dependant (6)
25 Possibly isn’t a rich Gentile (9) 26 Calendar girl? (4)
27 Boy caught in the fruit machine (9)
DOWN
1 It follows trouble at the farm (9) 2 Hostility when I’m at noisy disturbance (9)
4 A trick sure to go wrong (4) 5 Do her characters constitute a crowd? (5)
6 45 to 1 (6)
7 Overwhelming defeat disrupting tour (4)
9 Rang about the youthleader being cross (5)
11 Food brought home and saved? (5)
12 Wise series of novels about credit notes (9)
13 Fascinated for a spell (9)
17 I want about two (5) 19 Television programme from Israel? (6)
22 Run like a crowd scene participant? (5)
23 Inform on the store (4) 24 Spoil the first cherry brandy (4)