WEEKEND CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Gin in fact is remarkably important (11)
9 Oil producer has many branches (5)
10 Ballet Daisy performed on holiday in France (8,3)
11 Divorce town in Croatia? (5)
12 Gondolier’s glass? (8)
14 Urges Con somehow to cadge (8)
15 Ship that’s off-course (7)
17 Empty loch, sign of aridity (7)
20 Hairdresser’s reduced charge? (3-5)
21 Flannel used in bathroom (4-4)
24 My subject (5)
25 Complicated streamlined train crashes (11)
26 Diana, Uruguayan, included Pacific island (5)
27 Attractive sum? (6,5)
DOWN
2 Picture one of the Three Wise Men (5)
3 Fertiliser can raised again (5)
4 Unreliable story about sick revolutionary (8)
5 See clan in revolt during purge (7)
6 Film playthings, nothing else during attempt (3,5)
7 Full name for instrument, old instrument colonel retuned (11)
8 Meteorological craft (7,4)
12 Justifying quintet pointing (11)
13 From behind put in to destroy something at the very beginning (3,2,3,3)
16 Appeared to be retroussé (6,2)
18 Sorry Lucy loses heart in a piteous way (8)
19 Remainder with skill at beginning again (7)
22 National vegetable (5)
23 Apparently part of play is being performed in London (5)