Thetimescrosswords
ACROSS 1 Spring bulb (8) 5 Gained height (4) 7 Science of flight (11) 8 Boringly studious person (4) 9 Italian brandy (6) 10 Sugar common in plants (6) 13 (Of wine) dry (3) 14 Academic dissertation (6) 17 Canopied elephant seat (6) 18 Precipitation (4) 19 Speaking only one tongue (11) 20 —Murdoch, writer (4) 21 Plant of daisy family (8) DOWN 1 Bride-to-be’s party (3,5) 2 School with both sexes (4) 3 Backward-looking style of art and architecture (13) 4 Device used in cooling systems (4,9) 5 Ceremonial (6) 6 For example (4,2) 7 Covered passage (6) 11 Horrible experience (6) 12 Sea urchin (8) 15 Great respect (6) 16 Relating to the liquid in blood (6) 18 (Of bell) sounded (4)
ACROSS 1 One complaining about brother being back as dock chief (10) 6 In present condition, need animal to carry one (2,2) 9 Spiritualist’s choice not to be grilled too much (6,4) 10 Opera heard in two small rooms (4) 12 To drink, run for players’ table (6,6) 15 Attack on way — stifling scream (9) 17 He supplied temple builders: take ’em on, I say (5) 18 Enormous resistance getting into Beowulf, for one (5) 19 One’s caught on the first morning (5,4) 20 Nixon’s campaign slogan, short and to the point as race leader (8,4) 24 Sort of year’s circuit: June finally enters (4) 25 One with sharp blade using craft to check temperature inside piece of pork (10) 26 Edge — the wicket falls (4) 27 Without esteem, in any case (10) DOWN 1 Trim up baby’s first cradle (4) 2 Assistant thought article should be leader (4) 3 Some poems, one more than Rasoumovsky got? (4,8) 4 Courage finally failing a Roman emperor (5) 5 Fungus that’s rare, you may recollect (9) 7 What should secure conviction, avoiding another hearing (10) 8 City’s pleasant look, welcoming queen to unfinished district (6,4) 11 Singular condition of status symbol on gown (12) 13 Entering name, record man as poet (10) 14 After arsenic, a time in critical state (10) 16 In gutter, I’d a strange feeling of obligation (9) 21 Confection available in lethal variation (5) 22 Fearful, fail to cross river (4) 23 Through which to view French town? (4)