WEEKEND CROSSWORD

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Dear Reader,

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic we are suspending competition entries for all our prize crosswords.

Puzzles will continue to appear as normal but no entries will be accepted or prizes given.

We hope to return to normal as soon as possible.

The solution to this week’s cryptic crossword will appear next Saturday as usual.

Stay safe!

Joy Yates, Editorial Director

ACROSS

1 Behaving extravagantly on the way to the shops? ( 5,2,4) 8 Uttered wildly that no silver had been destroyed ( 5) 10 Dorothy followed dance pattern ( 5- 3) 12 Interminably rearming another seaman ( 7) 13 Back way out of Preston ( 7) 14 Both sides needed to cover fish basket ( 5) 15 Mexican to fabricate levy ( 6,3) 18 A box, one Augustus used for vegetable ( 9) 20 Ill- fame from mine in Kent ( 5) 21 Article linking two vehicles to make a third ( 7) 24 Turk or Australian macho, we hear ( 7) 25 One’s own being with one going to loch ( 8) 26 Foot alongside containing claw ( 5) 27 Trial period ( 7,4)

DOWN

2 It might be first service book ( 7) 3 Do not stop seeing this sign ( 2,7) 4 Bloomer from Lulu not going to extremes in the end ( 5) 5 Romans struggled under the first beam ( 7) 6 Complete part of golf course as you might say ( 5) 7 Knew straightaway that Tom was hostile? ( 4,7) 8 Partly coincide going round the east during jump across ( 8) 11 One new fitting that is not recommended ( 11) 16 Sauce lost from French stew ( 9) 17 Musical shape ( 8) 19 Is it beneath priest to make another call? ( 7) 20 Sign of affection ( 7) 22 Magistrate produced some free verse ( 5) 23 Number having arrived performing in silk fabric ( 5)