CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Little girl to clean dog? (6) 4 Fashionable item of clothes with gold edge, potential moneymaker (8)

9 Show public school journalist

around (6)

10 Evangelist fighting against atheism ultimately becomes half-hearted (8)

11 Meet the old man outside wild

party being taken short! (9) 13 Contribution I pen, finally

turning up on time (5) 14 Perhaps butterfly chasers soon

get lost – I’m sent out (13)

17 Get painless in bed somehow –

that’s essential (13)

21 Middle of field has thin tree (5) 23 Celebrity going round garden, ending in rockery, sitting down (9)

24 Well-disposed, like a bank? (8) 25 Military unit in district given

new leader (6)

26 Spinning round, I get angry,

mad, losing energy (8)

27 Group on newspaper accounting

for daily event (6)

DOWN

1 Two females, old and unintelligent, set up position in field (3-3)

2 Chum in US prison who may correspond with a stranger? (3,6)

3 New competitor in event ran

terrifically (7)

5 Rudest alien removed and made

ineffective (11)

6 English archdeacon at home – good time for putting feet up? (7)

7 Traveller in marketplace upset over limited parking (5) 8 Furthest little spot found in

holiday? (8)

12 See 22 Down

15 Plans for plays? A censor is

disturbed (9)

16 Fascinating group, including

one ex-GI? (8)

18 Designer of spreadsheet for pig

farmer? (7)

19 Head may have this message prohibiting money announced (7)

20 Bird awfully cagy needing to

miss a trap (6)

22 & 12 Down Dramatist getting theatrical award meeting film producer with big mug (5,11)