£100 PRIZE CROSSWORD

1 A nutcase in an oil and gas company (5) 4 Freed from danger after Des returned and took the cure (7) 8 Not pleased with one of the seven dwarfs? (7) 9 Uses a cleaver to supply lamb or pork cutlets (5) 10 Fat Japanese guys make a comeback in the Picasso museum (5) 11 Newly born pups in the carelessly discarded rubbish (6) 14 Pat’s going round the first of the houses looking for tracks (5) 16 Rae returned to the empty laboratory too soon (5) 18 In a trance when very busy? You need the drink of the gods (6) 21 One of the labourers from five in the Navy (5) 24 Excited Ian goes round the V& A with Trump’s first wife (5) 25 Located in the open air – and terribly dour too (7) 26 See Asti being produced – it’s the least difficult (7) 27 Clamber up a hill due to some arthritic limbs (5) 1 Bitter tasting? Yes, ours is awful (4) 2 Totally tire getting a car’s fume pipe (7) 3 Spot pal going north with MacBooks, for example (7) 4 A meat substitute made by a few Portsoy artisans (4) 5 Act in the Channel Islands briefly with prickly characters! (5) 6 Kanga’s kid finds a short street where birds spend the night (5) 7 Completely ruins a carefully restitched toy dress (8) 12 A drink that’s extremely aromatic primarily (3) 13 An instruction from the dentist made Dion weep (4,4) 15 A number of the photographs are very steamy (3) 16 A new type of lace – it’s a stretchy material (7) 17 Ivor and Ali prepared the Italian food parcels (7) 19 Scratching post scratchers from Santa, we hear (5) 20 Conscious of the warrior’s leader in a troubled area (5) 22 Wee Dorothy takes a learner in – he’s not very bright (4) 23 Bar a stuck-up person from Qatar, Egypt or Morocco, for instance (4)