WEEKEND CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Get water out of shoe (4) 3 Ambitious like one taking to the air over Everest (4-6) 10 Not even turbulent (5) 11 Learned marks without the change of a letter (9) 12 Dinner hour used amiss as did not have enough food (14) 14 A French divorcee quietly organising ride that had not come to an end (9) 16 I leave another Alpine country (5) 18 Argument about second television, say (3-2) 19 Subsidiary put gold on a railway about 11.51 (9) 20 Against strong opposition after I have passed (4,2,4,4) 24 Embrace once spasm moderates (9) 25 Drive out from the complex, pelicans! (5) 26 Animal intelligence? (5,5) 27 Cart, one without water outside (4)

DOWN

1 It’s the talk of Lisbon (10) 2 Oldie must be removed, it has decayed the most (9) 4 Building blocked by snow (5) 5 Confused Theodore unknown in holding an unconventional belief (9) 6 Plants in the upper house (5,3,6) 7 In the list, length of agave fibre (5) 8 State representative had umbrella (4) 9 Not all having weight about expert on old radio station (5,9) 13 Two gambles heartless boy included during commentary in America (4-2-4) 15 Extremely convenient it is not manufactured to order (5-4) 17 Starter about to be brought up in the fog (3-6) 21 Clergyman had one motor after five (5) 22 Relaxes, ends with no beginning (5) 23 Get involved with mum after yours truly.