Crossword 3

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

3. A fence around the street? Get a lawyer (9) 8. Where rain would be a change (4) 9. Eve - or a ship’s officer (5,4) 10. It’s clear I’d start drooping (6) 11. Proposals on them were made in the past (5) 14. Mother and son in the building trade (5) 15. Bread upon the waters (4) 16. A bit rough to us, but Americans think it’s great! (5) 18. Time to learn a technical word (4) 20. A stadium near a ruin (5) 21. Poet as yet bewildered (5) 24. Pete gets round it, being small (6) 25. Necessity’s child (9) 26. Understands it’s reversible (4) 27. Ways to gain admission (9)

Down

1. Tactful fellows (9) 2. Its practitioners will request a show of hands (9) 4. Desirous of upsetting a singer (4) 5. Got up to change the reins (5) 6. It goes before the fall (6) 7. Is not any faster at splitting points (4) 9. Northerners one may meet in noisy taverns? (5) 11. Observes, preserves or reserves (5) 12. Occasionally I seem most agitated (9) 13. Tease Lila about being uncomfortable (3,2,4) 17. Many go to a port when loaded (5) 19. Star that’s possibly remote (6) 22. But it annoys having a giant inside (5) 23. Soon to provide a French negative (4) 24. Attractive Northern point (4)

QUICK CLUES

Across

3. Try (9) 8. Plunder (4) 9. Guardianship (9) 10. Secret (6) 11. Gore (5) 14. Couch (5) 15. Remainder (4) 16. Flagrant (5) 18. Side (4) 20. Two-fold (5) 21. Dog-lead (5) 24. Abaft (6) 25. Transient (9) 26. Bend (4) 27. Unfruitfulness (9)

Down

1. Make clear (9) 2. Jolly (9) 4. Trim (4) 5. Register (5) 6. Seller (6) 7. Impel (4) 9. Tine (5) 11. Stall (5) 12. Very pleasing (9) 13. Servant (9) 17. Harden (5) 19. Shooting star (6) 22. Purloin (5) 23. Mark (4) 24. Lure (4)