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)