CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Perhaps hang around four years following, to create board diversion? (9,3)

9 Producer of light Highland cheese embracing Ross-shire origin ran back inside (6,3)

10 Rival to Olympus when it comes to shooting (5)

11 Stay beside and observe (4,2)

12 Return to Fraggle Rock, having lost knight with broken leg in front of strong castle on The Lecht (8)

13 Student misses logical conclusion of money-making scheme (6)

14 Skilled performer against riotous movement (8)

17 See 26

19 Maintain forgetting name twice due to cocktail (3,3)

21 Label argon compound as product of Russian city (8)

23/25 Meatless meal leads to salt tuna row (6,5)

26/17 Toot away from Cat on a Hot

Tin Roof production and agree Bafta part for 18Dn 3Dn (9,2,6)

27 Make physical effort to note reflexes in a poor state (5,7)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across: 7 Absolute mayhem 9 Caviar 10 Yuletide 11 Disaster 13 Tariff 14 Etre 15 Squid 16 Baht 17 Island 19 Hothouse 21 Untruths 23 Endure 24 Self-confidence

DOWN

2 Order exam to treat dry skin (9)

3 See 18

4 Ease tensions with a whisky sample (4)

5 Prizewinner – one acquiring a Bafta part for 18Dn 3Dn (8)

6 Working in restrictive surroundings this evening (7)

7 Back from holiday all right, before hesitating on Renfrew ferry link (5)

8/22 Surprising note of overheating vehicle for 18Dn 3Dn (3,4,2,3,5)

9 Journalists covering junior Lions? (3,9)

15 Short month cultivating in lane every other leap year (9)

16 Automatic feline response on being observed tracking canary across table tops (5,3)

18/3 Scottish actor reportedly made a mesh and angered worker, perhaps (7,7)

20 Musical film produced in Australia? (7)

22 See 8

24 Laurel, perhaps, unearths odd content on comeback (4)

Down: 1 Has a sixth sense 3 Claret 4 Stay 5 Emulated 6 Oyster 8 End of the series 12,2 Rough estimate 15 Sedition 16 Broadens 18 Adrift 20 Treads 22 Soft