GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO. 27,886

ACROSS

9 Healthy society

shapes futurist (5) 10 Reading two articles about crime problem over coffee (9) 11 Radiation in school’s not right, doctors say (5,4) 12 Bear or blackbird? (5) 13 Secret soldier (7) 15 Dear, dear! Tablet dropped by Heather (7) 17 Angry over spill (5) 18 Look both ways (3) 20 Prelude to main

trombone part (5) 22 Water plant or shrub vigorously about midJuly (7) 25 Weight of silver in

1,000kg (7) 26 Cooked food really is excellent, deserves tips (5) 27 Might they reserve

fellow’s prize? (3,6) 30 Tory disrobed in and around church ceremony (9) 31 Newspaper roaming all over the place? I’m lost (5)

DOWN

1 The Yorkshire hairpiece? Get it! (4) 2 Simply awful catching cold after 29 competition (8) 3 China is ascending here? (4) 4 Secretary in ripped jeans grasps English language (8) 5 Stopped being quiet to break record (6) 6 Liberating, free and paradoxically humorous (10) 7 Special artificial intelligence takes in hill for enlightenment (6) 8 Prepare carbon monoxide at absolute zero (4) 13 Fruit bat home? Not in, definitely out (5) 14 A trap to steal pound loses penny? That’s surprising (10) 16 Dwarf, for example, acquires second name after retiring (5) 19 Old girlfriend inclined to be stretched (8) 21 Follow progress of time

by lines (8) 23 Scottish nobles retreat

down south (6) 24 Kind of piece, decorated with colour (6) 26 Limit of returned

books (4) 28 By wearing glasses, start to notice county briefly (4) 29 Call round (4)