GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO. 27,470

ACROSS

8 Girl finding Vauxhall, say, and Oval on the 26, perhaps? (8) 9 Native American,

old and wise (5) 10 See 2 11 Barking noted with terminus in Upminster, best Underground station (4,6) 12 One asking Paddington, say, to eat horse (6) 14 Legendary bull’s home pumped with oxygen thus, as preservative (8) 15 First of trains passing through Monument as a rule (7) 17 Appear clumsy in golf with a wedge, ending in bush (7) 20,24 Both end with Underground in Barking (5,3,4) 22 Temple, a resident there is welcomed in by father (6) 23 Master of creativity, heart rate around about a hundred (3,7) 24 See 20 25 For example, Nobel Prizes we deigned to accept (5) 26 Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, one ahead of a sovereign (8)

DOWN

1 Plain, fine letters sent in the post (8) 2,10 Black eye initially violet, forming bruise on skin (4,4) 3 Feller’s call to take leadership from merchant bankers in Bank (6) 4 Poor white American taking wine with spoon (7) 5 Climber from Stanmore going down the tube (8) 6 Airbrush out borders in removing Pennsylvania city (10) 7 Bored, it’s suggested? Take down Waterloo (6) 13 Might granny

shove off? (3,7) 16 Flyer values monitors and adjusts a chemical (8) 18 Particular doctor painted on canvas, primarily (8) 19 Workers’s home in High Barnet? (7) 21 Flood is over

the grass (6) 22 Crime, good and

exciting (6) 24 Error on the Tube,

perhaps? (4)