THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1314

An Ettinger shoe horn 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 13 June. Send it to The Week Crossword 1314, 121-141 Westbourne Terrace, London W2 6JR, or email the completed grid or listed solutions to crossword@theweek.co.uk. Tim Moorey (timmoorey.com)

This week’s winner will receive an Ettinger (ettinger.co.uk) Bridle Hide travel shoehorn in black, which retails at £75, and two Connell Guides (connellguides.com).

ACROSS

1 Eddie Izzard, for example unhappy with sideboard (5-7)

8 African capital detachments needing time to get to the front (5)

9 Ban what’s on snooker table (9)

11 Expensive, like entry to the Eiffel tower (1,3,5)

12 Short stumpy person quarrelling noisily after showy jewellery lost (5)

13 Row after informer gets more irritable (7)

15 Aardvark aberrant running right away (3,4)

17 Erudite King facing hooligan (7)

19 It’s used for opening act in theatre (7)

21 Character shown by Earl Thomas (5)

23 Eatery clubs celebrate in song? (9)

25 Lady in Lisbon Sheraton out to catch leader of industry (9)

26 Right oven needed for Sunday lunch? (5)

27 Invoices needing opening for fish market (12)

DOWN

1 Some arsenic on victim reveals one? (7)

2 Complex old boy looking down on meeting (9)

3 Sword shaken by a Serb (5)

4 Gather fruit comes again (9)

5 Reportedly looks for gurus (5)

6 Long time certainly for removal (7)

7 Bludgeons lesser mortal awfully (5-7)

10 Political grouping treated a pal terribly (7,5)

14 Communist group without following? That’s a new arrangement (9)

16 First-class rhubarb flan served up in restaurant (9)

18 Ghanaian people heard in a ramshackle hut (7)

20 Replace damaged fabric (7)

22 Wind storm primarily over Bath (5)

24 First of French statutes showing weaknesses (5)