LONDON TIMES CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1 There’s no place for mild bitter (4) 4 Book with hot photo takes the biscuit (6,4)

9 In the past, I got up out of habit (6) 10 King unhappy one Christmas after a turn (8) 11 Vulgar party game for swingers? (8) 13 Get a dry drop of Amarone at home (6) 14 Replace heads of old left in African state (10)

16 Clue guide (4) 17 Correct turning point for reversing (4)

18 It’s a little odd and tickles a little (10) 20 Not just as brown mops are? (6) 21 Fruit works with, say, grapefruit starter (8) 23 Man in silk changing foreign capital (8) 24 Brood on times I left to go to The East (6) 26 Writer’s stuff is unmoving on radio (10) 27 Perhaps a school in need of turning around (4) Down 2 My love wants company in the van (3) 3 Ambition to succeed? It’ll be a long shot (5) 4 Swagger shown by upcoming lawyer with excellent case (7) 5 Where sleepers might be found at every point (3,5,3,4) 6 Small scene in play is Iago’s first and last (7) 7 Can I still cast piece of little substance? (9) 8 Babe in a car collecting a new coffeemaker (7,4)

12 A group of dudes close to arrest for desertion (11) 15 Out of order train isn’t on its way (2,7) 18 Piece from editor on touristy city abroad (7) 19 Large ship must give European a lift by law (7) 22 Language seen in loo left by King and Earl (5) 25 Have seconds in new cafe by the front in Torquay (3)