WEEKEND CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Not very well suffering with the elements (5,3,7) 9 To be ready I left having done some modelling (5) 10 One who is getting on had singularly old medical care (9) 11 Still behind the Spanish footballers perhaps (6) 12 Act of giving out ice Susan melted (8) 14 Old poet provided heart (4) 15 RAF accepts new vehicle for orbiting earth (10) 18 Not a difficult choice to make, it’s an easy alternative (4,6) 19 Must cast out piece of soot (4) 21 Hurry to serve up set point (4,2,2) 23 Back-seat driver’s seat? (6) 25 Tanneries need to be reorganised unequivocally (2,7) 26 Some proposal voiced during fusillade (5) 27 Start working hard or go to sleep (3,4,4,4) DOWN 1 Not having beforehand to be ill-favoured (15) 2 Scepticism about faith in the infernal world! (9) 3 A reed’s washed up in the water (3,3) 4 Mammoth seen in press reaching Estonian capital (4) 5 Quite hot part found on weather map (4,6) 6 Cola, a cup came from Mexican port (8) 7 It flies female over (5) 8 Jules Verne’s 15 across filmed (6,2,3,4) 13 Inconsistency of parts of forks in places (10) 16 Member has a party entertaining poorly bony beast (9) 17 Officer goes to our home to fill drawing with various hues (6,2) 20 Got out of date pedals exchanged (6) 22 We must make an effort to do this ourselves (5) 24 Reportedly farm building is an eyesore (4)