CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Ornamental tablet or a sticky film on teeth (6) 4 Scotch bonnet, eg (6)

7 Farmhouse cooker (3)

8 Underground passageway (6)

9 ___ Partridge, character portrayed by Steve Coogan set to return to our TV screens soon (4) 10 Banish (5)

11 City that’s home to the Colosseum (4)

13 French word for ‘milk’ (4)

15 & 19D Fictional horse created by Anna Sewell (5,6)

17 Camera part (4)

19 & 3D Bird that is a national symbol of the USA (4,5)

21 Unedited (5)

23 Supreme Greek god (4)

24 Ronald ___, actor who became 40th President of the United States (6)

25 Sense of self (3)

26 Persuades, talks someone into something (6) 27 Wages time! (6)

DOWN 1 Harold ___, British playwright whose work is being celebrated in a season of performances at the West End theatre named after him (6) 2 Pear-shaped fruit or minor character in

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (6)

3 See 19A

4 Of or relating to the heart (6)

5 Jerusalem’s country (6)

6 Strike while the ___ is hot, saying (4)

12 ___ Of Us, Abba hit (3)

14 Unwell (3)

16 Finds, discovers the whereabouts of (7) 18 Duke of ___, Prince Harry (6)

19 See 15A

20 She could talk the hindlegs off a ___!, expression (6)

22 Collective noun for a group of monkeys (5) 23 Chemical element with the symbol Zn (4)