DAILY PUZZLES PAGE

ACROSS

1 Immersed in lucre a millionaire is top (5)

4 Italian general makes most of

gain covering base (9)

9 One must do the nearby Perthshire village (9)

10 Sound of band raises cheer (5)

11 Cutter starts from Kiel normally in fishing expedition (5)

12 Males tweet no end about

17 across (9)

13 Wealthy English saved by tax cut will take 17 across? (4,3)

15 Dissensions from South Carolina on his manuscript (7)

17 Regularly occurring bliss, a clue into - into which one can get one’s teeth! (7)

19 Savoury foodstuff Mike’s left for

Charlie also sweet one (7)

21 Aero (inter alia) company sacking pop, mostly unpunctual (9)

23 Conflict about further education from Corpus Christi? (5)

24 Horned beast given old bread (5)

25 Eg Alka-Seltzer for one guest lacking class in joint (9)

26 Naughty pussy, ahem! responsible for gloop in chippy? (5,4)

27 Grand beer knocked back (5)

DOWN

1 Bilk maybe going after credit for gem (7)

2 See ice? Yep after adjusting telescope parts (9)

3 Part of clergyman’s entitlement (5)

4 A stooge blithely to join the navy? (2,2,3) 5 Skate not as much it being gloomy (7)

6 Charms bees going round with about 100 (9)

7 Escaped bog over southeast (5)

8 Sticks with rascals drinking beer (7)

14 Reportedly lectured on science repeating same thing (9)

16 Neckwear accessory making mark is over loud (5-4) 17 Stiff stuff from two male animals (7)

18 Moonshine makes one walk swayingly after time (7)

19 Large candles lit in eg CE, Sir (7)

20 Naturalist performing duller bit of research (7)

22 Fails to mention is sick (not very) (5)

23 More sage in stew I serve (5)