£100 PRIZE CROSSWORD

1 and 4 Delighted! And excitedly we yearn to give midnight’s 2018 greeting (5,3,4) 4 See 1 Across 8 Donald ran Rebecca back, partly to see Mr Cribbins the actor (7) 9 Packing a weapon? Yes, it’s out of harm, Edward (5) 10 Miss Close is in a Scottish mountain valley, we hear (5) 11 Red cards for a Scottish Premiership football team (6) 14 Teased wee Edward with a child’s plaything at the start (5) 16 A strong line from Vince, the Lib Dem leader (5) 18 Make a request for something in Kos, far away (3,3 ) 21 Obscure – that’s wee Louis in a compact disc (5) 24 The drum contains Ursula’s initial pasta wheat (5) 25 An awfully nice gal – like the shepherds’ visitors (7) 26 A cool minty decongestant is part of the treatment, holistically (7) 27 Follow on… men lose the head standing next to Ms Barker (5) 1 The boys’ leader enters his Scottish football club (4) 2 The players prepared the greenleafed garnish (7) 3 Longed for 12 months before Den returned (7) 4 Silently gives approval of Don’s renovation (4) 5 Scream wildly, say, – it’s the world’s largest mammal (5) 6 Merle annoyed Bugs Bunny’s enemy Fudd (5) 7 Red salad roots – a feature of a Madeira dish especially (8) 12 An alias that’s used by sea kayakers (1,1,1) 13 Nat ran Dominic, not entirely in a haphazard way (2,6) 15 Santa’s little helper has fled northward, losing its tail (3) 16 Perfume from a German city (7) 17 Cheap showy jewellery items – found on a festive tree (7) 19 King gets terribly near to Ms Gillan, the former Dr Who girl (5) 20 100 mph? One must leave showing vim and vigour (5) 22 The mode of transport that takes a fibber north (4) 23 Spot of bother that arises in a Culloden campsite (4)