CRYP T I C CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Strike legislation rejected – left work (6)

5 Pudding that can come before order? (5-3)

9 End in French harbour after granny ate fish (6,7)

10 Dated and wrong to be going round alone (8)

11 University College may be accepted by reformed idle mathematician (6)

12 Case of dill imported by fruit vendor (6)

14 Imagine vines developing with time (8)

16 Marine ray will eat river fish (3,5)

19 Doll oddly found in fairground attraction is an enigma (6)

21 Works out and breaks down (6)

23 Share a line, being sensible (8)

25 Saves on accommodation for domestic workers (5-8)

26 Fancy times with last of people in Cheddar perhaps! (2,6)

27 Border ran directly across mission (6)

DOWN

2 A moral tale about female being friendly (7)

3 Language progress comes after cutting connection short (5)

4 Debts regularly seen to support scheme with regard to energy growth (5,4)

5 Realise that is five in pain (7)

6 Chaplain’s flat rate, having no heart (5)

7 Former soldiers caught on wrong side driven out! (9)

8 Suggestion of popular ruler protecting pound (7)

13 Throws company function, finding a dish from the north (9)

15 Finished without love, albeit strangely true (9)

17 Student trapped by crude chance (7)

18 Horse around what in Spain is a tent (7)

20 Affair giving rise to trouble with one lad (7)

22 Rumour of cut being steep (5)

24 Depressing experiences uncovered for title-holder (5)