WEEKEND CROSSWORD

Across

1 Arch-priest’s ordered removal of all

clothes (5-6)

9 Broadcasting whilst elated (2,3)

10 Not the place to have all one’s

eggs (2,3,6)

11 Southern sailors’ wages (5)

12 Actors’ club that’s unyielding

(4-4)

14 Boat a Hun transported by road

(8)

15 Opposes balances one’s included

(7)

17 Be told wrongly that her aim’s

misguided (7)

20 Dish junior Alfred included,

sounds easy (8)

21 Roxy in Pam’s unusual embrace

has fit of giggling (8)

24 Second heat for cloud of insects

(5)

25 Chain is not complete with it (7,4) 26 Call to mind lady who is all right

internally (5)

27 Marked time (4-7)

Down

2 Got an order for light vehicle (5)

3 Isn’t it contracted (5)

4 Take away vehicle over land (8)

5 Side arms (7)

6 Popular nightclubs, places of high

radioactivity (3,5)

7 Coach route perhaps (11)

8 Attract fashionable bride’s partner

in reception area (7,4)

12 Would he make the judge laugh?

(5,6)

13 Adorn vassal coming from

Central American city (3,8)

16 Met disaster with discordant drums that had been played unskilfully (8)

18 Pointlessly transient sort of

computer network (8)

19 Exam did not start before the

heartless retort (7)

22 Some waxy lemon tree’s woody

tissue (5)

23 After that time shortly included

in corner (5)

ACROSS: 1 A Pat on the Back, 10 Savouring, 11 Easel, 12 Annette, 13 Citroen, 14 Leglen, 16 Imbecile, 18 Open Fire, 20 Ocelot, 23 Tendril, 24 Abandon, 26 Nyasa, 27 Forestall, 28 Set in Concrete.

DOWN: 2 Pavan, 3 Trustee, 4 Noised, 5 High Camp, 6 Breathe, 7 Custodial, 8 A Small Fortune, 9 Clandestinely, 15 Greengage, 17 Prolific, 19 Ferrari, 21 Coarser, 22 Garron, 25 Draft.