THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1116

An Ettinger travel pass 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 30 July. Send it to: The Week Crossword 1116, 2nd floor, 32 Queensway, London W2 3RX,

ACROSS

7 Those starting in school are nursed here (3)

8 First dance with nothing on may go down like this! (4,7)

10 Mature pudding from a long time in the past (4,3)

11 Refurbished entrance not right for eatery (7)

12 Character keeps time in class (5)

14 Callas stirred a famous house (2,5)

16 Sounds like bloke rejected for bulk distribution (4-3)

18 Seasonal visitors, informally those against leaving Nag’s Head (3,4)

19 Shift work scheme engages one (7)

21 Malicious woman in scrap with child (5)

23 Benign tumour on a dame needing treatment (7)

24 Wavering Metro disrupted on Circle Line going north (7)

26 Hit rock’s first for sergeant and privates (5,6)

27 Person who’s taken in by a centre-forward? (3)

DOWN

1 Former Head beginning to drop off (4)

2 All there outside look for a fashionable young woman (6)

3 Awfully long wait for French coach? (5-3)

4 Copper in a station endlessly? You could count on this once (6)

5 Note a leg injured – a stretcher will do (8)

6 Differing greatly from some Europeans? (5,5)

7 Google is used by setter as I haven’t a clue! (6,2)

9 Organisation for public sector workers is out – that’s socially unacceptable (3-1)

13 Boy keeping wicket tickled with it (8-2)

15 Evening without work, close to a couple of females (5,3)

17 No other person present in the form of 11 (3-2-3)

18 Scores disappeared during matches (8)

20 A geriatric’s true statement represented (6)

21 Milk producer, one in French city (6)

22 US agent in new boat by the sound of it (4)

25 Poles at the heart of uproar safe (4)