CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Winning deputy, good and respectable (10) 6 Struggle with scene (4) 9 In love, you and me after a second run out (7) 10 Judge arrives carrying grip (7) 12 Hi-tech duo’s ATM fiddling shows a gift for making money (3,5,5) 14 Pack in place in Kent (8) 15 Create and settle differences (4,2) 17 Grounds of Parisian art gallery (6) 19 Endless sex entertaining a jolly foreign policeman (8) 21 Pedant tense? No, it’s I, corrected (13) 24 Time to walk like a duck? Nonsense (7) 25 One could upset speaker – he upset clerk (7) 26 Pull domesticated ox round rear of barn (4) 27 Opera company’s manager breaking a promise to tour Rhode Island (10)

DOWN

1 Code name – ‘Omaha’ – Turing covers up (4) 2 Prune others growing wild, indefinite number (7) 3 Desperate to know how to proceed and make amends, put cards in post (2,4,4,3) 4 Plain individual (8) 5 Antelope present in many a land (5) 7 Elected head of trustees, impolite to butt in (7) 8 Almost get the better of more fashionable one seen in church (10) 11 Various small things of interest to a coin collector? (4,3,6) 13 Form of treatment that may be shown in photo, as yet to be developed (10) 16 Pour alcoholic drink, drowning insect (2,6) 18 Blunder among reserves in ground (7) 20 Unnerve leader of ramble, pointing to snake (7) 22 Hard to penetrate word for unit of heat (5) 23 Close to body dropping temperature (2,2)

Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved