The Cryptic
ACROSS
1. Maybe a groper with perverted views and notoriously foulmouthed (9)
6. Runs casually to cut off
English son (5)
9. Fish retreats – plots for plants! (7)
10. Address of circle – share (7)
11. Precise former deed (5)
12. B, obviously leading the bunch!
(3,6)
13. Rents over half a NSW central
coast town for 24 months (3,5) 14. A nothing clue (4)
17. Old garment around the neck
– sounds coarse (4)
18. Ornamental flowerbed – a role for the queen coming and going (8)
21. Tensions – a weird feeling (9) 22. A friend found directions to
nation (5)
24. Chill with eight, perhaps – it’s
for a drink (3,4)
25. Small vehicle left carrying an
old injury (7)
26. Stand, rest 50 (5)
27. Adder sees double one! (5,4)
DOWN
1. Toadfish, with a note for a complex motif with multiple themes (5)
2. Breakfast food said to be rotten; those who finish are habitual criminals (6,9) 3. An Olympic athlete, but a struggle, right? (8)
4. Drop-ins – the thing in eye protectors (8)
5. Big ladles – journalists love them (6)
6. Big priests – animals (6) 7. Dined, in short conforming to accepted standards, in the toilet – it’s not open to the public! (7,8)
8. Chant over a river about an Asian city (9)
13. Upends roofing material – it’s a way in! (9)
15. Antacid treatment – I mean gas! (8)
16. A long time ago – one included in a process (5,3)
19. Staff, turn over a line for the book of instructions (6)
20. Various sea birds (6)
23. Cover big beach resorts (5)
Solution next week