CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Get rid of European predicament ( 6) 4 Perhaps I carved jewel ( 8) 10 Make use of a screen broadcast ( 5) 11 Playing chess I try frenzied attacks ( 9) 12 Wretched chap with list of duties taking turn as supervisor ( 7) 13 One promoting health – of flower? ( 7) 14 Fundamentalist Christian sect’s potential for conversion ( 14) 17 Licence for every letter head ( 14) 21 Mother’s pet dog ( 7) 23 Take plunge, having kind of comfortable job with police force ( 7) 24 Tasteless stuff Venetian artist announced, crafty fellow ( 9) 25 Protective clothing not right for love ( 5) 26 Does perhaps clothing indicate what’s fashionable? ( 8) 27 Football club cancel tickets for enclosure ( 6)

DOWN

1 The main view south on break touring Austria ( 8) 2 Back cooker put in order again ( 9) 3 Spread around permitted range of colours ( 7) 5 Dubious business practice like factions taking drugs ( 5- 9) 6 Put pressure on clergyman with pain to pull through ( 7) 7 Fool, I eat less having nothing to replace energy ( 5) 8 Make certain of being on river ( 6) 9 Running film could make a historic offer ( 8,2,4) 15 Tom Bates messed about, holding a vessel ( 9) 16 Mysterious coteries assembled ( 8) 18 Injuring old Lib- Dem leader after month in France ( 7) 19 Copy bird not flying after specified time ( 7) 20 Showed feelings being relegated, losing head ( 6) 22 Plunders fortified wines ( 5)