CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Oppose action another time, by the way (5,7) 8 Poem I see reportedly blissful (7) 9 Loosen article in Paris before parts are removed (7) 11 Fruit grounded down under (4) 12 Copywriter (10) 14 Observing dumb-bell (6) 15 You once by railway went round country freeholders (8) 17 Roof repairers hid theologian’s fish (8) 19 Overwhelm in Parisian abyss (6) 22 Correcting what is not starting to be scary (10) 23 Some tofu Jimmy ate on the mountain (4) 25 Drawing rig Adam devised (7) 26 Not upset, no doubt, by haircut (7) 27 Little toe she manoeuvred into part of shoe (8,4)
DOWN
1 Rush was unfortunately taking time to find device for hitting insects (3,4) 2 Lady shortly having breather (4) 3 Face gear (6) 4 Relating to a type of music that is more unappealing (8) 5 Lament isn’t about one of a series of payments (10) 6 Barns ie custom-built for one from Southern Europe (7) 7 In need of a rest cure? (4,3,5) 10 Small-minded authority in the main (5,7) 13 Single French individual having this sort of thinking that is affecting one side only (10) 16 Send on large number in passage (8) 18 Boxer’s vehicle? (7) 20 Strange a French order for drink (7) 21 Couple of blows in boxing, or three? (3-3) 24 Before chanteuse’ s part (4)