£100 PRIZE CROSSWORD

1 A resin mixture for the Jockey’s straps (5) 4 Foolishly drink with Ed and the relatives (7) 8 Find a painkiller for the awful pain, Sir (7) 9 Auntie leaves the beauticians struggling with the minimum wage (5) 10 Two manicures? This shows she’s a lady (5) 11 Made fun of having cuppas with wee Edward (6) 14 Wasn’t thrifty? Yes, that’s him leaving the shipment (5) 16 He took Mr Moody, the Oliver! star, to see a wading bird (5) 18 The goodlooking guy lives in a homestead on island (6) 21 Dance movements that reverse some of the instructor’s pet sequences (5) 24 Performing a task to make a dingo run (5) 25 Spots a communist and becomes very angry (4,3) 26 They will curl your hair in posh cars (7) 27 Ms Boyle takes part in the convention’s US anthem (5) 1 Go here and there in the Eternal City, say (4) 2 Make beneficial alterations to the prom I’ve organised (7) 3 The Rev Stan converted a worker at Downton Abbey (7) 4 Clark of The Daily Planet in the “Garden of England” county (4) 5 An aristocrat who’s high-minded? No, Blenheim reveals all (5) 6 Flowers from the glasshouses, or from the south (5) 7 The sneaky CA tended to be immoral and self-indulgent (8) 12 Drastically reduce the number of tax examiners (3) 13 He’s surrounded by water and Ireland’s troubled (8) 15 An extra in The Sound of Music? Not even one, we hear (3) 16 Horrible threats for the milliners? Yes, the art’s being destroyed (7) 17 Cops’ paperwork when there’s some rare port stolen (7) 19 The type of bay window that can be seen from the Loire (5) 20 King Lear dumps the ark in the fireplace (5) 22 Snakes found in the hills! PS: Alison keeled over (4) 23 Somewhat sedentary in the garden (4)