GENERAL CROSSWORD

▶ Across

1. Salad vegetable (6) 4. Counsellor (6)

9. Mexican Indian civilisation (5) 10. Design (7)

11. Of a temple (knights) (7) 14. High-born (5) 15. Moderate (as climate) (9) 20. Lord (5)

21. The flowing back of the sea (7) 24. Requited (7)

25. Up to the time (5) 26. Roman god of agriculture (6) 27. Traps (6)

▶ Down

1. Stretchable (7) 2. Singular fact (L) (5) 3. Sung (5)

5. Country on the Baltic (7) 6. Quiver, shake (7)

7. Wash the soap out (5)

8. Heel goad (4)

12. American writer, poet (3)

13. In short, electrical measure (3) 15. Rush of water (7)

16. Team boss (7)

17. Apply friction (3)

18. Small child (3) 19. Lattice-work garden structure (7) 20. Money; effrontery (5)

21. Small whirlpool (4)

22. Bear, personified (5)

23. Bury (5)

▶ Yesterday's solution

Across 1. Unsure 4. Shabby 9. Ratio 10. Arrival 11. Amnesia 13. Orle 15. Acrimonious 18. Oval 20. Ideally 22. Diploma 23. Crash 24. Shrimp 25. Urchin Down 1. Unreal 2. Satanic 3. Roo 5. Harmonise 6. Bevel 7. Yale 8. Paradoxical 12. Stillroom 14. Ers 15. Ago 16. Unleash 17. Python 19. Viper 21. Ides 23. Car