CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Opening remark interrupted by

100 English fellows (12) 9 One point about that guy’s

Disneyland locale (7) 10 Hurt by one small economic

doctrine (7) 11 Conventional armaments I

modified (10) 12 One-track mind,

initially, on love (4) 14 Female spirit seen in

pseudonym “Phoebe” (5) 15 Moroccan city leaf collector

standing in swamp (9) 16 British nobleman skirting a

Polynesian island group (9) 18 Mother takes in good,

hot rock (5) 21 Note the first person

married with ring (4) 22 Grind in menu misspelled

for a really long time (10) 25 Reversing call, scratch

football player (7) 26 Boggy area bearing

revolutionary sponge (7) 27 Terrible crime tests my

way of gauging things (6,6)

DOWN 1 Stupidly ruin Mac:

case for a brain? (7) 2 Pipe repaired each

summer (10) 3 Composer Bernste in embraced by Ethel Merman (5) 4 Core groups including

old lawmaker friends (9) 5 Sea horse (4) 6 Foul-smelling goose egg is found in Alaskan town (7) 7 One in 3,000 touching

wealth (6) 8 Unwrinkled orange eaten by southern insect (6) 13 Subcontracting reconstruction of giant forum (7,3) 15 Grandly liberating cinemas is wrong (9) 16 Indistinctly say Manitoba invested in drug smuggler (6) 17 Cameron revised Love Story (7) 19 Suspense writer’s ominous about quiet article (7) 20 Like mad new rage (6) 23 Unevenly mixed up my liquid after first bit of lunch (5) 24 Sharif hit hoop from behind (4)