GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

9 A 20, exceptionally rare (9) 10 Bound to hold money at first, spend less (5) 11 Punk is beaten up by fifty associates (5,2) 12 Coarse material from a Nazi leader? (7) 13 Inhabiting Transylvania, Gothic villain (4) 14 Children recalled eating meat, one in balls (10) 16 See 23 17 Hail on moon, mind how you go (7) 19 Fashionable bit about page viewing (10) 22 See 7 24 Motorway exit? That’s not sexy (4-3) 25 A stinker, abominable clue getting some stick (4,3) 26 Into clothes runs a snake (5) 27 Too simple, might you say, to secure capital in retrospect — could this help? (9)

DOWN

1 Period in gym when core ignored, I bet a schoolboy error? (8,7) 2,3 Doctor might find One Direction to be the dark secret of a child? (8,5) 4 Cheese, be mouldy please! (3,5) 5 Saint and queen accessing two narrow areas (6) 6 I help with church lesson, issue

lost on some figure (9) 7,22 Row attributed to nuclear test

site, sensitive area? (6,4) 8 In course of lifespan, is home let temporarily? It’s standard fare in Europe (7,8) 15 This is right, one viewed

from the south in fact? (4,5) 17 Las Vegas employee with

a worse lung problem? (8) 18 Artist has designed action that’s perfect for a British summer? (8) 20 Second best joker (6) 21 Covering bottom of utensil,

often slippery — is it? (6) 23,16 US songwriter, guy who tried, when suffering, to inspire love (5,7)