CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Vote to get extra large notice

dismantled (2-8)

6 One’s precious ring,

left by father (4)

9 Flying squad character joins prison guards, not taking sides (7)

10 Short cloak, cool – no itch when

used off and on (7)

12 Pedantic phoney’s love

dismissed by the Queen (13) 14 Away from home, time to wear

dead crumpled old hat (8) 15 Rasp needed for cunning

plan (6)

17 Growth of pleasure – well, that’s

endless (6)

19 Sleazy club founder gets attack

from on high (4-4)

21 Like one who scoffs when folk

get heated? (13)

24 Said to be obsessed with study

in retirement (7)

25 Revered figure, royal, almost

due to go walkabout (3,4) 26 Scruff takes ecstasy, seeing

little sleep ahead (4)

27 Bed one rises to go to (4,6)

DOWN

1 Eating bit of chicken? (4) 2 Parts of cereal crop burning in

distance we hear (7) 3 Continental marriage? It’s hard

to get out of it! (8,5)

4 Cheers! Whisky with less water

is cheaper (8)

5 One gawps, regarding learner

driver with turn coming up (5) 7 Slate and pine – that’s style (7) 8 China used by pub meeting for Fulham and Chelsea perhaps (5,5) 11 Kitty used by a merchant wandering round eastern region for customers? (9,4) 13 Literature that’s lost the plot?

(3-7)

16 Belt one aristo’s

got on (3,2,3)

18 On going in opposite directions, best to be persistent (3-4)

20 Gold and green veg and other

food grown here (7)

22 A university occasionally

copied, held up as sound (5) 23 Caught Romeo escaping from

relation in blue (4)