£50 PRIZE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Spoon-bender Geller pops into the company briefly to see an odd item (5) 4 Clang! I’m annoyed but it’s soothing and tranquillising (7) 8 Sounds like a frock for the place where someone lives (7) 9 Tom at first follows
plan in factory (5) 10 Lazily sidle into stores selling cold cuts, cheeses, and salads (5)
11 Fit into a group naturally as part of a tribe, long-term (6) 14 Crazy due to the children’s toilet training? (5)
16 Drive off to see an
Italian composer (5) 18 The ace nun edited with a subtle shade of meaning (6) 21 Hire some useful
easels (5) 24 Provide money for a college as a friend, Owen, reveals (5) 25 Finished with girl in Ireland’s north-west county (7)
26 Given liberty and a complete collection of something without charge (3,4) 27 Mother briefly takes son to see the stone-worker (5)
DOWN
1 Seafood for someone who is reluctant to say anything (4) 2 It’s termed a cooked beef maybe, but not chicken (3,4) 3 Extreme fatness – i.e. Toby’s terribly worried (7)
4 Lying back in the conservatory, so comfy and snug (4) 5 A slip in standards as some of Dave’s pals retired (5) 6 I had a garden tool,
say, in a US state (5) 7 Pull yourself together and grasp tightly (3,1,5)
12 Tell a fib about part
of Kinlocheil (3)
13 A painless treatment for dogs with floppy ears (8)
15 A heavyweight is climbing in Dunnottar (3)
16 Met Ivan travelling to
Hanoi’s land (7) 17 Formally quits from a position with struggling singers
(7)
19 A small fraud... it’s leading to an HMRC inspection (5) 20 Shrink in shame as a bovine creature stands over the Queen (5)
22 Wee barmaid Lena
is doing nothing (4) 23 Mr Musk, the new owner of Twitter, is in Barcelona (4)
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