The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Cryptic Crossword
Both sets of clues fit both grids
ACROSS
1 Locked room with very large instruments (6) 5 Submerges creamy party foods (4) 9 Bleak island, time to intrude (5) 10 Normally a guideline from Cape Town? (2,1,4) 11 A paper hanky’s under discussion (2,5) 12 Discard, not initially, then throw out (5) 13 Get used to being in the river (5) 15 A lot of money perhaps going up chimney (5) 20 Kipling’s lone wolf under a stormy lake (5) 22 Act coat out for musical piece (7) 24 Delicious starter of salad and cold game (7) 25 I am taking a long time to produce picture (5) 26 Something planted brings yield, we hear (4) 27 Peasant is curt, unfortunately (6)
DOWN
2 Tail one wags in joy (7) 3 Enjoys hawk film that follows large one (5) 4 Wound editor that’s frightened (6) 5 Local speech in citadel abroad (7) 6 Cut fruit (5) 7 Seeing that pale city in Africa (5) 8 Determined to fight (3-2) 14 Back by coastal area shortly with new weapons (7) 16 Man, at one, wants Indian bread (7) 17 Austere in Lehar’s home (5) 18 Strong horse as yet unreliable, right? (6) 19 Check holds up the French servant (5) 21 English lake in North America? How weird (5) 23 Crockery damage caused by French fries? (5)