£50 PRIZE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Boys take nothing inside for the washing machine bundles (5) 4 Professor’s address to students about the Spanish truce… (7) 8 …to deliver, in retrospect, what’s scorned (7)
9 Lovely Ann usually giggles – happy initially to respond to a joke (5) 10 Find ex-wife’s inside to make a book’s A-Z subject list (5) 11 The skilled carpenter is retraining Erin and Jo (6)
14 Some large jugs – or fewer, sometimes reduced in size (5)
16 A butter substitute is ordered for Al (5) 18 Humble and shy? Yes, Tom must go back and include Des (6) 21 What a pugilist does with the toy containers (5) 24 Made a mistake in returning from Auchterarder recently (5) 25 Move away noiselessly if flop’s really ghastly (4,3)
26 US police at first invaded the sect to find a possible culprit (7) 27 An impressive assortment? Ah, wee Raymond, we hear (5)
DOWN
1 Somehow rely on a stringed instrument (4) 2 Move forward to get a down payment for an author (7)
3 Wine stores, they say, for actor Peter, of Inspector Clouseau (7) 4 In Portugal, I’d organised the outdoor public pool (4)
5 A string instrument that’s used in a Purcell overture (5)
6 “About turn!” after the boat leaves (1-4) 7 Intangible, delicate and heavenly – the tale at last has the real ending (8)
12 Feeling awful after some alligators turn up (3)
13 It’s uninterrupted, without joins, or else Sam’s in trouble (8) 15 Feel regret about the French street? It’s mostly true (3)
16 An idol, far off in America’s sunshine state (7)
17 Only 60 minutes in Rouen – oh, dashing to various places (3,4) 19 Shows courage when some of the squad are scared (5) 20 Edge shyly from Python Eric after first of the scenes (5)
22 A “Hey, you!” hiss as pro leaves the new passports (4)
23 Dodgy starters – inedible French flans. Yuck! (4)
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