Cryptic Crossword

Across

1 To be too theatrical, maestro

varied movement (13)

10 Bear having no right to invest

(5)

11 Gem of a game for one (9)

12 Most dangerous position indicative of rain on weather map (5-4)

13 Swot had drinking-vessel

raised (3,2)

14 Beyond this it’s exceptionally

good (7)

16 With a will (7)

18 One’s about to get in new

lights (7)

20 One Roman road Edward

navigated (7)

21 Shakespeare’s twelfth? (5) 23 Tonnage is removed from

village in County Durham (9) 25 Travelling in the main (9)

26 In corduroy always looking

regal (5)

27 New posh helper in store (4,9)

Down

2 Type of recorder on which to

see nothing (5)

3 Amusing entertainer ie leaving,

one going in again (2-7)

4 Fidgety sleep I have (7)

5 Most gentle lids met

awkwardly (7)

6 Pole inside grotto temporarily

(5)

7 Nothing less for skating disaster in surgical procedure (4,5)

8 One who strives for a flawless

finish (13)

9 Lenders with plenty splashed

about in a brilliant way (13)

15 Record chart’s systematic

account (9)

17 Top half of school that is used

by spider (9)

19 Group that is wearing glasses

(7)

20 Idiot one’s seen holding raised period weapon from Africa (7)

22 Vagrant’s transport at

Peterhead (5)

24 Fitting attempt (3-2)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1 Light industry, 10 Injustice, 11 Bacon, 12 Henbane, 13 Deliver, 14 Exceed, 16 Quatorze, 18 Minister, 20 Acidic, 23 Settled, 24 Transom, 26 Axiom, 27 Louisiana, 28 Standing order. DOWN: 2 Injun, 3 Hostage, 4 Ibidem, 5 Dreadful, 6 Subplot, 7 Recovered, 8 Michaelmas Day, 9 Unarmed combat, 15 Constrict, 17 New Delhi, 19 Solomon, 21 Coarser, 22 Strung, 25 Skate.