CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Making an issue of what’s been written? (10)

6 Italian church passion (4) 10 Shabby inner-city parking causes depression (5) 11 Charging in, verbalising (9) 12 Trooped off to see something exploding (7) 13 Colourful bit of scenery drops – sign the show’s over (7) 14 Communist allowed ground-up dry tea for celebration (3-6,3) 18 Electrical fault noticed with restricted observation? (5-7) 21 Slip put right near the back of a book (7)

23 Praise British university breaking routine (7)

24 Food giving a chap toil when cooking (9)

25 Makes more flat golfing equipment (5) 26 Revolutionary something in the Air, with a narrative (4) 27 Disregarding odds, unties astern – the US task, finding wartime havens (6,4)

DOWN

1 Vegetable bringing in ready money once (6) 2 Obscure outbreak starts with Belgium not France (6) 3 Discharge from lemon – impatient to get cleaned up (14)

4 Populace’s vote given to Hearts with two narrow away wins (3,6) 5 On the up, some prosper eventually – or not (5)

7 Rest found here in Bill and Ben’s garden? (4,4)

8 Bad manners where driving is fastest? (8)

9 Something printed from two journalists I crashed into south of border (7,7)

15 Island folk project a hit, Ian Stewart boasts (9) 16 Spirits seen in German city church steeple’s entrance (8) 17 Brief time in front of grave around memorial showing grief (8)

19 Strange dusk gathers over uniform gures in square (6) 20 Playing lines United used to replace energy once (6) 22 Coming from the south, one’s goal to make US city (5)