£100 PRIZE CROSSWORD

1 Where the Queen went horse racing in unusual coats (5) 4 Strongly criticised when last in bed (7) 8 Angrily ram limo? That would be wicked and wrong (7) 9 It’s me arranging articles at a supermarket checkout (5) 10 Who can find the Crinan waterway? Can wee Alastair? (5) 11 Bean or Magoo missed her, by the sound of it (6) 14 An actor’s remark to the audience: We see a team! (5) 16 Think the world of a little hero, David, making a comeback (5) 18 One of Santa’s transport team – a star on Strictly (6) 21 It’s a part of your lower leg – an A1 bit in retrospect (5) 24 Somehow agree to become enthusiastic (5) 25 The silly lass ate seasoning from the briny (3,4) 26 Someone on a protest walk is a crafty charmer (7) 27 It’s Morecambe the comedian with a heather plant (5) 1 An opera solo from the topless West Side Story girl (4) 2 I rap Mac for knocking back a bitter Italian aperitif (7) 3 The caterer travelled to a row of houses (7) 4 The symbol for Taurus? Nonsense! (4) 5 It’s a common defence first of all – another lawyer is being irritating (5) 6 A bird noise on social media from the cutest wee thrush (5) 7 Tactful with a secret I’d carried around (8) 12 Down in the dumps when climbing some of the pagoda steps (3) 13 A nightmare when mad Debra goes on the rampage (3,5) 15 Serve up a fish? What’s up in Bugs Bunny land… (3) 16 …Ina flies north with a friend to bring Bugs Bunny to life (7) 17 Mira and I go off to see the art of paper folding (7) 19 It’s Reg in headover-heels flip into an African river (5) 20 A Braveheart hero reveals where the Planet of the Apes is set (5) 22 Russ has to be driven round a former Communist state (1,1,1,1) 23 A smoker in Sicily starts to exhale the nicotine air (4)