DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

3. Logical cause to fix share of beer (9) 8. A very tiny part of the anatomy (4) 9. Oriental oddly near trees (9) 10. Singing from a worker on edge (6) 11. Fear of adder (5) 14. Animal is all right with father back before one (5) 15. Fifty and single – yes,

single (4) 16. Heather in the morning

leaves the New World (5) 18. Observe return of Eastern

heavyweight (4) 20. Is able to make section of

long poem (5) 21. Former stage turn was quite

precise (5) 24. Teapot as dispenser of tea –

or pure fancy? (6) 25. Builder of the film industry? (9) 26. Get ready to publish some seditious material (4) 27. Fastener puts dress right (5-4)

Down

1. Quantity under par but still supreme (9) 2. How express letters are delivered? (4-5) 4. The first man to cause a lady to lose her head (4) 5. Meantime I'm left to do the burying (5) 6. There's nothing unusual about Marlon (6) 7. Is prostrate through untruthfulness (4) 9. Eastern Great Lake is uncanny (5) 11. Move aimlessly twelve inches behind doctor (5) 12. It's wrong, dead wrong, to demote (9) 13. Most cared for politicians (9) 17. He plays at work (5) 19. Unfortunately sees about 90 as surplus (6) 22. Does it put the voter out of humour? (5) 23. Look at one's equal (4) 24. This country needs some proper understanding (4)

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QUICK CLUES: Across

3. Shame (9) 8. Shoal (4) 9. Premise (9) 10. Voucher (6) 11. Cheeky (5) 14. Cost (5) 15. Tramp (4) 16. Dance (5) 18. Successful move (4) 20. Undo (5) 21. Sortie (5) 24. Pellet (6) 25. Retort (9) 26. Agitate (4) 27. Lying (9)

Down

1. Cliff (9) 2. Impoverished (9) 4. Satellite (4) 5. Change (5) 6. Zest (6) 7. Locate (4) 9. Card game (5) 11. Uneven (5) 12. Enmity (9) 13. Fleeting (9) 17. Soothsayer (5) 19. Dialect (6) 22. Ship (5) 23. Dam (4) 24. Strap (4)