BL TWO-WAY CROSSWORD 2416

EASY ACROSS

1. Hub (6)

4. Chitchat (6)

9. Shake with fear (7)

10. Strungup (5)

11. Handle of axe, etc (4)

12. Hindu garment (4)

13. To be read as printed (3)

15. Onionrelated vegetable (4)

16. Stylish elegance (4)

19. An advance (3)

21. Smooth material (4)

22. Continent (4)

24. Religious images (5)

25. System of wireless telegraphy (7)

26. Just so much (2,4)

27. Render one unhearing (6)

ACROSS DOWN DOWN

1. Awkward poser (5,8)

2. Necessary (7)

3. Teases (4)

5. All at once (8)

6. Airs (5)

7. Abstraction of mind (13)

8. Settle loan (5)

14. Keeps on and on (8)

17. Finish knitting (4,3)

18. Wretched dwellings (5)

20. Way to cook (5)

23. Gratuitous (4)

ACROSS

1. Being in the middle, foreign coin must be refinished (6)

4. Sponsor at baptism will go in for idle talk (6)

9. Boy singer taking in a number will show his fear (7)

10. ‘X’ halfseen to be strungup (5)

11. Handle the end of the launch toward the stern (4)

12. Garment necessary to dress a ricegrower (4)

13. Namely one inside: read that the way it is (3)

15. Vegetable upsetting to essential part of craft (4)

16. Elegance shown by half the domestic poultry (4)

19. Advance the coach – in reverse! (3)

21. QC's material to witness finally – the same in Scotland? (4)

22. Where China is backward in opera is alarming (4)

24. Is about to do religious pictures (5)

25. First in wireless telegraphy, spoil one of 24 mistakenly (7)

26. Just as much of a lesson, put a different way (2,4)

27. Make one hear too much to make one hear nothing (6)

SOLUTION: BL TWO-WAY CROSSWORD 2415 DOWN

1. ‘Any luck?’ angler may consider something to trap him (5,8)

2. What's necessary to end fuel distribution (7)

3. Wives going spare at the Chinese takeaway, perhaps (4)

5. Unqualified, the dismissal? Correct! (8)

6. Noted utterances (5)

7. In advance, trade causes state of engaged mind (13)

8. Being concerned with wages, settle the loan (5)

14. Person, on leaving, is set up heartlessly – still keeps on! (8)

17. Untie the craft and finish the knitting (4,3)

18. In Scotland, chimney in only half the mess of wretched housing (5)

20. Cook one way, cook another right inside (5)

23. It's for nothing to let one go (4)

1. Overmuch 7. Might 8. Muffled 9. Delight 10. Lost 12. Earache 14. Seeming 17. Spit 18. Buffalo 21. Corsair 22. Large 23. Pretence

1. Ormolu 2. Effusive 3. Malt 4. Cuddle 5. Agog 6. Statue 7. Mildred 11. Private 13. Complain 14. Subtle 15. Grocer 16. Starve 19. Fort 20. Grit