THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1084
An Ettinger Croco key case 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 11 December. Send it to: The Week Crossword 1084, 2nd floor, 32 Queensway, London W2 3RX, or email the answers to crossword@theweek.co.uk. Tim Moorey (www.timmoorey.info)
ACROSS
7 Company once foremost in recording classical albums (3) 8 Peach and orange cocktail for which charges are small (11) 10 Harry Potter’s complaint (7) 11 Agree with Gunners? That’s a wild notion (7) 12 Arresting items in strikes (5) 14 Sonny, perhaps at home with large car outside (7) 16 Article on official exclusions for old Greeks (7) 18 British companies carrying on? They provide unreliable transport (7) 19 Track laid around area very hard work (7) 21 Where you’ll find Arabs liberated? (5) 23 Gin’s ordered in pub – it should be on the house (3,4) 24 Dodgy dealing regulated (7) 26 Time to stop work in closing field event (4-7) 27 Damage caused by backing pound (3)
DOWN
1 Start race as spoken of for a pudding (4) 2 Cash but no credit for biscuits (6) 3 Love children leading in book publicity (8) 4 Its lead is slowly worn down on A4 (6) 5 Westminster watcher turned on one in a little Italian (8) 6 Bags of nonsense in Scotland about fire (10) 7 Knock a part of London for greed (8) 9 Cheese crackers with last of brie served up (4) 13 Following unreliable site; enter from the south Wales town (10) 15 One getting abuse is person from Cuba? (8) 17 Motion appearing right away to get poetic inspiration (8) 18 Uncle from the country? (8) 20 Related industrial bigwig blowing his top! (6) 21 English composer’s violin part (6) 22 Grave message beginning to stimulate tears (4) 25 Handel, say or handle! (4)