CROSSWORD No 1092

ACROSS

1 A slaughterhouse (8) 5+20 Down. Mingled white and black or streaked with grey (6-3-4) 10 An electric drill, e.g. (5,4) 11 White soft rock (5) 12 Dry, parched (7) 13 Rubbed on, entered & used (7) 14 Always, at any time (4) 15 Swedish city (10) 18 Festive religious period (10) 19 Swedish hitmakers (4) 22 Saviour, liberator (7) 23 Harmony, agreement (7) 24 Yellowy-white colour (5) 25 Lax arena’d do for this girl! (9) 26 Being, presence (6) 27 Mind someone’s property by living in it (5-3)

DOWN

1 One missing a limb (7) 2 Proverbially pale (2,5,2,1,5) 3 Thoroughly beat, whitewash (6) 4 Smooth white colour (5) 6 Doing a bunk, fleeing (8) 7 Brightly-coiffured ladies (8,7) 8 Swedish parliament (7) 9 Whitened, disinfected (8) 16 Flare-up, rash (8) 17 Enter again (8) 18 A pain in the head (7) 20 See 5 Across. 21 Chronicles, history (6) 23 A set of beliefs (5)