CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Printing error in ‘On the Beach’ picked up (7) 5 Journalist frantically tried ringing job centre (6) 9 Athlete doesn’t start in New York convent (7) 10 Very serious former soldiers keep time (7) 11 Bishop loves to heckle (3) 12 A farmer grew supply that was deployed in WWI (4,7) 13 She’s without husband (5) 14 Similar writer’s first person at gallery around four (9) 16 Sentence is adjusted to include past money (9) 17 Person who backs a new set (5) 19 Dad’s imported minute Greek donkey as garden ornament (6,5) 22 The old wide wood (3) 23 I think it’s OK at sea abandoning this raft (3-4) 24 Will beneficiary put entrance in shelter? (7) 26 Harry does up fake (6) 27 Governments seize religious books from lots of soldiers (7)

DOWN

1 Extended greeting for weapon made of 22 (7) 2 Order soldiers in shelters to produce old instructions (3,12) 3 Old port from yesteryear (3) 4 Performer’s heading off for bed (5) 5 Plant seeds lie scattered with spikes (9) 6 Team in Milan’s place in ground (5) 7 It controls computer procedures in theatre (9,6) 8 Scrub allowed in river (6) 12 Sort of ‘green’ style of creative work (5) 14 Distribute it in Congo using false credentials? (9) 15 A US state’s stockpile (5) 16 One kept turning up around old Kansas city (6) 18 Like the Wild West, Lima, possibly Wales and Sweden (7) 20 Commercial that is top-class, the last word in Paris (5) 21 Island brought up Republican fitter (5) 25 Trap’s going at regular intervals (3)

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