£100 PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Read the riot act to the criminal clods (5) 4 Towered over Snow White’s friends? (7) 8 Surrenders or capitulates with the sign I’ve ripped up (5,2) 9 Colourful, informal talk when taking some Scots langoustines (5). 10 A zodiac sign that can be seen from afar – i.e. Scorpio? (5) 11 The curious, shy cop in Hitchcock’s classic thriller (6) 14 Tina leaves the sick inpatient? Yes, incompetent (5) 16 Prime Aberdeen beef for Scots actor Macfadyen (5) 18 O’Neill gets very annoyed with Mr Messi of Barcelona (6) 21 “Encore!” Angela’s Gershwin aria is noteworthy, first and foremost (5) 24 Unusually fit in New York, making you quick and agile (5) 25 A solar or lunar event that’s shown in Lee’s pic possibly (7) 26 Put lips together and go your separate ways (5,2) 27 A chap eating the last bit of a sausage – it’s penny-pinching (5)

DOWN

1 Coming back from Vegas, a much wiser man (4) 2 Observe redesigned Queen’s head side of the coin (7) 3 Leave high and dry, say, with the sweet course (7) 4 Have a meal with some sardines (4) 5 Blockheads with beasts of burden (5) 6 Swiss currency for Mr Skinner, they say (5) 7 Hugo does set off to a place for the disgraced (8) 12 A craving for Japanese money (3) 13 Flying in Israel with companies that provide regular plane travel (8) 15 You need this to get money from an ATM in the Philippines (1,1,1) 16 Perfectly behaved and heavenly when I glance away (7) 17 Catch a brief sight of the MP taking Giles around (7) 19 A pâté ingredient that sounds dreadful (5) 20 Temple hunting? My group depart finally for a North African country (5) 22 Look in both directions for a little escapee, perhaps (4) 23 Turn on the waterworks as the wee pipe is cut (4)