WEEKEND CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Elderly fellow in front of flock (4) 3 Colourful factory? (10) 10 Eccentric about to be sacked first (5) 11 Mechanical knockout? (9) 12 Coming from inauspicious position with club, one giving unwanted advice (4-4,6) 14 I am taking vase with cooked meat and port (9) 16 Dupe pursued by duck or lizard (5) 18 Edgar bound to include actress (5) 19 Insult Ray transporting alcoholic drink (5,4) 20 How croupier will accumulate cash very fast (4,2,3,5) 24 Luggage-room analysis of particular situation (4-5) 25 An idiot comes back for brush (5) 26 An admiring stranger getting a soaking (10) 27 Alan went round Ulster plant (4)

DOWN

1 Pedestrian way to cross (10) 2 Metal core removed by poor timekeeper (9) 4 Some unpleasant ranting about cavities (5) 5 Not a mendacious sort of character who visited at night (9) 6 How marathon runner might be being extremely successful (7,2,1,4) 7 Remarkable cure going round hospital in pleated frilling (5) 8 Proconsul kept part of brood (4) 9 One, two, say, and another one involving direct communication (6-2-6) 13 Lovely sort of spherical object used in game outdoors (10) 15 Guard, he, an eccentric gave a loud speech (9) 17 Restrain feature one included on paper (5,4) 21 Getting a rise out of Norse deities (5) 22 Composer had included unknown number (5) 23 Lowest film, but it’s found on top (4)