CROSSWORD

Chris Leyland No. 17

ACROSS

1 See 25 5 Maybe Laurel ‘n’ Hardy with a gal rolling out of hay! (7) 9 Like big cat, one cunningly passing through Equator (7) 10 Ultimate location of gold is spectral? (7) 11 Girl serving typical pizza topping (5) 12 Basic ingredients of Lent meal after last of indulgence (9) 13 As Spooner swings trophy it goes over idiot’s head (6,3) 15 Nurse getting about in Mini? (5) 16 A religious service to gather (5) 18 Cor! A screw, ill-disposed, makes bird’s life hard (9) 21 Piglets’ mum cornering setter in this place, any place (9) 24 Scouse comic dismisses senior cleric in martial art (5) 25 & 1 It’s fantastic to cure, tho’ never without prescription (4,3,7) 26 What’s this of a ragman, a horse to shove? (7) 27 Abandons more than one channel (7) 28 In that place another Einstein’s involved (7)

DOWN

1 Recycled cold oil producing emulsion (7) 2 Upper class, most important Scot is idealist... (7) 3 ...being overused leader of traditional ceremony on loch (9) 4 Swing, up before English magistrate of old (5) 5 Pulse when racing makes a nerd gape (6,3) 6 Lift to demolish, we hear (5) 7 Judge elicits secret I brazenly cover up (7) 8 Naughty Edward, last in school is laggard (7) 14 Indian lacking class - tiny portion of curry, insipid with no starter (9) 15 In which see me catch king, unable finally to move (9) 16 A spy crossing South Carolina to escape (7) 17 One can fight over this in economy class! (7) 19 Manage without payment what safari animals do (3,4) 20 Lumberjack to court maiden, not i.e. yielding (7) 22 Magazine heard of for one practising occult (5) 23 Compel payment that’s precise (5) SOLUTION to Roger Squires No 3,613: Across - 1 Prompt, 4 Compound, 9 Shelve, 10 Big Apple, 12 Absentee, 13 Stores, 15 Edge, 16 Administer, 19 Aftertaste, 20 Star, 23 Obtuse, 25 Archness, 27 Ignominy, 28 Tobago, 29 Hedonist, 30 Recede. Down - 1 Passage, 2 Oversight, 3 Paving, 5 Ovid, 6 Plantain, 7 Upper, 8 Dresser, 11 Headway, 14 Fixture, 17 Title page, 18 Irishman, 19 Abolish, 21 Restore, 22 Throne, 24 Tuned, 26 Onus.