GENERAL CROSSWORD

1. Inviting (6)

4. Author (6)

9. Ethical (5)

10. Peach-related fruit (7)

11. One's own back (7)

14. Icy cold (5)

15. Pressure measuring instrument (9)

20. Weight of gem (5)

21. Baffled (7)

24. Extra, unnamed player (1,1,5)

25. Commence (5)

26. Famed Douglas airliner (6)

27. Get up, bound on hind legs (6) ▶ Yesterday's solution Across 1. Purify 4. Esprit 9. Niche 10. Overact

11. Scallop 13. Ramp 15. Impressions 18. Keen

20. Toggles 22. Horatio 23. Poise 24. Warren

25. Played Down 1. Punish 2. Reclaim 3. Fee 5. Shearling 6. Realm 7. Tote 8. Composition 12. Lorgnette 14. Pas 15. Ink 16. Nullify 17. Ascend 19. Error

21. Show 23. Pal 1. Thought much of (7) 2. Russian theatre, the Maryinski (5) 3. Man-made fibre (5)

5. Type of piano (7)

6. One barracking speaker (7) 7. Assessed (5)

8. Willing; sport (4)

12. Greek long ‘e’ (3)

13. Sticky stuff (3)

15. Plant with hooks (7)

16. It engages with pawl (7) 17. Consume (3)

18. Tree (3)

19. At a walking pace (mus) (7) 20. Sort of beet (5)

21. Certain (4)

22. Pigment; the grayling (5) 23. Heathen (5)