CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Malingering using plumb line? (8,3,4)

9 In contempt you left it vacant (5)

10 Having become too big for one’s boots (9) 11 Took life seriously (6)

12 Be right by one twice getting tropical disease (4-4)

14 Isn’t European money (4)

15 Patient’s unfriendliness? (3,7) 18 Spiteful woman returned three times round house for measuring device (10)

19 Lady gave nearly everything to mother (4) 21 In the round I’m meditating about it being bright still (8)

23 Frustrating plant disease? (6) 25 Workable type of exam (9) 26 Pleasant but hot during recess (5) 27 Moving accounts of exotic experiences (10,5)

DOWN

1 Saying instrument is needed to assist hearing (8,7)

2 It’s unwise when finding nothing in implicit arrangement (9)

3 Spring unscrupulous person mentioned (6) 4 Lack of approval for retreat (4) 5 Subsequently from farther tee (10)

6 Say German on watch had item found in kitchen (3,5)

7 Run away with girl not a writer (5)

8 Two stepping out together? (7,8) 13 Gloomy writer to make cuts (4-6) 16 Without reason I will go up in charge with a learner (9)

17 Meteor to explode in sleeping compartment (8)

20 Heavenly revolver (6)

22 What RADA members performed, Frenchman included (5)

24 Endless drink making one do this (4)