CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Dark and mild drink (5,3) 5 Common fungus (6) 10 Australian nut (9) 11 A type of duck (5) 12 English variety of cheese (7) 13 Flightless bird (7) 14 Dull, mousey-coloured (4) 15 Soft drinks (10) 18 Football caution (6,4) 19 See 4 Down. 22 Faint, svelte (7) 23 Saint associated with forty days of rain (7) 24 Indigenous NZ people (5) 25 Item of dining-room furniture (4,5) 26 Animal shelter (6) 27 Greek sea god (8)

DOWN

1 Fuddled, dazed (7) 2 Very rarely (4,2,1,4,4) 3 Dishabille, bareness (6) 4+19 Across. Boiled sweet (5,4) 6 See 21 Down. 7 Cold War communist infiltrators (4,5,3,3) 8 Daffodil trumpets, crowns (7) 9 Anything that depresses the general mood (8) 16 Cook errs processing shrubby plant? (4,4) 17 A source of wealth (8) 18 Muslim double veil (7) 20 Tadpole, minnow (7) 21+6 Down. Extraterrestrials (6,5,3) 23 So Dad turned out to be a dull sort! (5)