THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1048
An Ettinger Croco ebony key case and two Connell Guides will be given to the sender r of the first correct solution to the crossword and the clue of the week opened on Monday 3 April. Send it to: The Week Crossword 1048, 2nd floor, 32 Queensway, London W2
ACROSS
1 Bishop taking new position about accommodating Republican getting good marks (7,6)
8 Traditions in part of an international airport? (7)
9 A Parisian occupying more than one apartment show off (7)
11 Taxi oddly seen around West Bank city and part of New York (3,5)
12 Girl starts to enter nunnery in anger (5)
14 Work on empty tunnels? Picks needed (4)
15 A good hand is what’s needed when Queen leaves the throne (5,5)
17 Standard in arrangement of chairs is divisive (10)
19 Fight consisting of two parts by the sound of it (4)
21 Muslim leader in American state briefly (5)
22 Animal to be recaptured got yards out (5,3) 25 Develops in Brussels (7) 26 Edible fish from abroad, favourite outside (7)
27 What TV engineer ensures after getting spliced? (4,9)
DOWN
2 Former small party of failure: Spectator (7)
3 Force out Speaker, one seeking affection (5)
4 All the details of a parliamentary election result? (3,3,4)
5 Advertise something going with cream (4)
6 First day of the year coming up, full of uncertainty almost straightaway (2,1,5)
7 Protective cover one aunt put out (7)
8 Footwear that’s often blessed (6,5)
10 Finally understand rage’s inconsequential (3,3,5)
13 Veto new foodstuff in Devon town (10)
16 Very intense hooker discovered (8)
18 Not such a bright month in European capital (7)
20 To some extent founder going for experience (7)
23 A day with your setter brought up? Pass! (5)
24 Land in the water (4)