The Chronicle

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across

3 & 27ac. Juicers leak heart, Mo with these vegetables (9,9)

8. Reportedly regret the soup thickener (4)

9. Saw student munch roo in the refectory (9)

10. This miniature made Ian sob! (6) 11. A pan we hear for brother to cook with (5)

14 & 15ac. Trademark that is burnt on your mind or buttocks? (5,4)

16. How speculator­s off course may go (5)

18. They are sold in creels perhaps (4) 20. Go out pouting having made a contributi­on (5)

21. The bird the worm does not want to meet (5)

24. Heartless Tony goes to the French resort for refinement (6)

25. Name isle with a developing area in the Pacific (9)

26. Three shirts found on the Grand? (4)

27. See 3

Down

1. Bib scarey? What a pack of sooks! (3,6)

2. Rotate the list. It is for the record (9)

4. Eastern NZ bird is found with sewing kit (4)

5. Cruel sort of stomach ailment (5) 6. Did he learn his craft at high school? (6)

7. Lover boy returns sore (4) 9. Praises the peers by the sound of it (5)

11. Wrongfully wrung out. What stupidity (5)

12. Fruit that can get blown (9) 13. On watch shelter for Byrne in Ox St. (6,3)

17. For bait I used a bone (5) 19. Lamas I turn into sausage (6) 22. Dracula actor goes to church. What a bloodsucke­r (5)

23. Ogle at some of the Constantin­ople erotica (4)

24. At a pinch, he is the devil (4)

Saturday

Across: 2. Dogma, 5. Game, 7. Hype, 8. By rights, 9. Katmandu, 11. Moon,

12. Arachnopho­bia, 15. Sees, 17. Impostor, 19. Jokingly, 21. Crow, 22. Shoe, 23. No end.

Down: 1. Mayfair, 2. Doe, 3. Gabon, 4. Air pump, 5. Gag, 6. Me too, 10. Mucus, 11. Moots, 13. Nail gun, 14. Iron ore, 16. Epoch, 18. Payee, 20. Ire,

21. Cud.

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