THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1012
An Ettinger coin purse and two Connell Guides will be given to the sender of the first correct solution to the crossword and the clue of the week opened on Monday 18 July. Send it to: The Week Crossword 1012, 2nd floor, 32 Queensway, London W2 3RX, or email the answers to crossword@theweek.co.uk. Set by Tim Moorey (www.timmoorey.info)
ACROSS
1 Excellent England footballer (8) 5 Posh boy and girl (2-2-2) 9 Record of famous individual (4,4)
10 Key, for instance given to stringed instrument (1,5) 12 Father and daughter in dock (5) 14 Refund that can give extra beat (3,6)
15 Fancy dates embraced by a Frenchman herein? (5-1-5) 16 Rested for a day (3) 18 Bar staff (3) 19 Do in North & South Asia and seats arranged (11)
21 Nothing right with a slice of peach in flan slated (4,5)
22 What’s needed when a rope breaks? Patience, perhaps (5)
23 Mere learner and adult talk at length (6)
24 Bound to cover cuts in old orchestra first (8)
26 Encounter bridge opponents returning for admiration (6)
27 Criminal pro is breaking into pub behind bars (2,6)
DOWN
1 Wading bird that’s smooth to a Cockney! (9) 2 Put away in the attic (3) 3 Left with snakes and their partners (7)
4 Express taken in by reporter for weekly (3,9)
6 Are suet crumbles luxurious? No, the opposite! (7)
7 Being out of sorts, abstained at parties (2,1,3,5) 8 Spotted bar opening for fruit (5)
11 Fast transport, say with coach (7,5)
13 Fearless person once got a hundred runs (11) 17 Novel rated when modified (3,6) 19 Seafood in a book unaccompanied (7) 20 Working, as many nuns are (2,5) 21 Accent shown by a senor in Madrid (5)
25 Talk a lot during passage from the south (3)