CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 16,831

ACROSS

1 One doesn’t want company left in secure compound (7) 5 Close Scottish bank

over in New York (6) 9 Pianoforte managed nine grand in old German money (7) 10 Dishonourable man with mother hiding current metal (7) 11 A court’s part in play (3) 12 Swelter awfully over ore, putting in kilos? I do that (11) 13 Weather lady who

rules lines (5) 14 Choose a player to give

this lift to child? (9) 16 Teams drinking lager recalled skiing manoeuvres (4-5) 17 500 in a party

make sense (3,2) 19 Frank organised fight

in marquee (11) 22 Painting’s social on

regular occasions (3) 23 Pressure’s on to

restart venture (7) 24 One samples food holding

old kitchen device (7) 26 I take flight crossing British meteorologist’s line (6) 27 Stand for conductor or conversely play banjo maybe (7)

DOWN

1 Substitute ribbed material with delicate fabric (7) 2 Artists’ trunks? They usually hold clothes (6,2,7) 3 Vessel, foreign one,

containing rupees (3) 4 Very good score

in Gleneagles (5) 5 Perhaps chains pet

with fasteners (9) 6 Sound car reaches

finish in Monte Carlo (5) 7 Building new smart rock band to tour Rhode Island (6,3,6) 8 U.S. rail company’s fate revolves around timetable principally (6) 12 They make it easier to

see small muscles (5) 14 Mercenary ship in River Plate foundered. 50 lost (9) 15 A snare’s set up some

distance away (5) 16 Exercises suit different heads of primary schools (3-3) 18 Bunyan’s hero, devout

student, determined (7) 20 Drivers quibble about

banger perhaps (5) 21 Compound in

Leicestershire (5) 25 Like special beast

of burden (3)