Crossword: Win £550
WIN 1 X £200, 2 X £100 OR 3 X £50 PRIZES
Both sets of clues lead to the same answers, revealing in the shaded squares a new film starring Chris Evans (4)
STRAIGHT CLUES
ACROSS
7 Pay from employment (8) 9 Unwed girl (6) 10 Infant (4) 11 According to authority (10) 12 Birds flap these (5) 14 Goddess of love (5) 15 Satanic (4) 16 Do not leave (4) 17 Sharp type of pain (5) 18 Standard, normal (5) 23 Basis (10) 24 Record the duration of (4) 25 Written by hand (6) 26 Manufactures (8)
DOWN
1 US island state (6) 2 Solely (4) 3 Pungent vegetable (5) 4 Hit with the palm (5) 5 Cork tipped or plain? (10) 6 Envy (8) 8 Secure (4) 13 Shimmering (10) 15 Placed within (8) 19 Fighting forces (6) 20 Beach-coloured (5) 21 Walk lamely (4) 22 Workers’ group (5) 24 Factual (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
7 Gin’s near distillation. They might pay for it! (8) 9 Strikers cannot score with this young lady (6) 10 Youngster coming from Cuba, by all accounts (4) 11 It’s nothing to suspicious sounding friend, in a formal way (10) 12 Pilots get these within industry, needing good service leaders (5) 14 Deity seen in heaven, usually! (5) 15 Vile sort of wickedness (4) 16 Remain a supporter (4) 17 One very attractive sort of accent (5) 18 Beginnings of uprising show us all lessons, as normal (5) 23 Such a stone should not be used at the top of a building! (10) 24 Item ruined with age? (4) 25 Wrote about being corralled? (6) 26 Turns out expert juices, we hear (8)
DOWN
1 State of hot and warm areas in individual openings (6) 2 It’s just a little person lying around! (4) 3 No! No! I ordered vegetable! (5) 4 Faint smell of a fishing boat (5) 5 Smokes to trisect age difference (10) 6 Giving us ale, Joy collapsed with envy! (8) 8 Upset as iron strong box (4) 13 It’s briefly good paying attention and showing one’s light (10) 15 Put in an envelope when 25 Across (8) 19 Heavenly ram holding mule’s head for hosts? (6) 20 Diluted drink losing head start, like a beach? (5) 21 No rigid way to walk awkwardly (4) 22 Workers group make a new start to 3 Down (5) 24 Loyal? Correct! (4)