CRYP T I C CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Social difficulty with mum and boy meeting decent chaps taking time (13)

8 Author of Yellow Spring (6) 9 Boat that’s smart with name of

island group (8)

10 Something disturbing? Notice

nothing (3)

11 Burden beginning

to worry crew (6)

12 Dogs making row interrupting

church service (8)

14 Notice eccentric character at

the end of short drama (7)

16 A crime rocking a country (7) 20 Dame’s pet let loose, running

out of control (8)

23 Stop rude sister needing wings

clipped (6)

24 Side no good – what

it won’t get? (3)

25 Like bees in sun initially getting

hot (8)

26 Attack route towards city

centre, say? (6)

27 Our delight not wavering, giving

end-of-year message (4,3,3,3)

DOWN

1 Travel in France – US soldier getting cold is hypersensitive (8)

2 One impressed by false image, I had nothing subsequently (8)

3 Traditions of border location? (7)

4 Sheds garments making journey aboard ship (6)

5 English friend entering province

of Asian country (6)

6 What could make remote wall

rot in fort (8,5) 7 See Cardiff install mostly new safety measure for pedestrians (7,6)

13 Restriction that denies

team a 24 (3)

15 Spring sees the uprising of a

snake (3)

17 Twelve using power to restrict

awful din (8)

18 Californian can, maybe! (4,4) 19 Fresh group of spectators in a

stir once (7)

21 Jolly type from India diving

into French river (6)

22 One wanting journalist’s article

travelled north to collect it (6)