CROSSWORD

Jeremy Mutch No. 1,357

ACROSS

1 Took in theologian, welcoming

university exercises (5)

4 Banks in Scotland may see couples

caught out (5)

9 Playing USA-run lotteries is a

dangerous game (7,8)

10 Runs out due to error in case of

employees (7)

11 They’re often put on a pedestal! (7)

12 Last of meat, and eggs as well (3)

13 Fashionable whim of early

childhood (7)

15 Construction material of holy city?

Never! (7)

16 Incandescence surrounding gas

explosion in city (7)

19 Bother from wild birds surrounding

you in France (7)

21 Enormous, without good shade (3)

22 Profile of unfashionable business

(7)

23 Lounge sees terrible uproar about

student (7)

25 New fare from Paris? (8,7)

26 Old-fashioned appointment with

Democrat (5)

27 Gangster never holding back (5)

DOWN

1 Set up identification with personnel

on the female side (7)

2 Couples having quiet and affected

manners (5)

3 Daddy’s disheartened with horrible

family! (7)

4 May, perhaps, honour after British

defeat (7)

5 Leagues seeing everybody

changing in case (9)

6 School tests on unprotected human fruit (7) 7 Icicle? (8,5)

8 Fat Bob endures being treated as a

mule, perhaps (5,2,6)

14 Careless in nightwear, and not

lacking love (9)

17 A noise to cover end of assault and cause amazement (7) 18 We had pinched part of foot and

pivoted (7)

19 Pictures of Parisian with old people

in Scotland (7)

20 Perfect a point disputed by unionist

(7)

24 Listener’s up, accepting one’s lift

(5)