TELEGRAPH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 Spreads river across five docks (8) 5 Slates laid backwards give way (4) 9 Lists gobbling duck and other

fowls (8)

10 Missing parts of muscular body

found by hospital dept (6) 11 Having dropped a name, niece is

disposed to be celebrity (8) 12 American music accompanying

tango is most crude (6)

14 Stake European thrust into

sentry and swore (10)

18 The still, small voice opposed to

logical observation? (10) 22 All-round entertainment mostly

about America (6)

23 Flier that shows cockney barber’s

art (8)

24 Mention collecting or looking

back can be stimulating (6) 25 Novel artily involving the Queen

should be well-read (8)

26 Ergo Russian’s definitely getting

something to drink (4) 27 Disturbed and elderly, eating

junk after lunchtime? (8)

Down

2 Olive largely gets stitched up in

fiddle (6)

3 Amounts of water possibly needed in

sunlit resort (6)

4 Light fabric items designed to go over

jumpers (10)

6 Writer with showy jewellery having

little taste (8)

7 Came first and quietly withdrew (8) 8 Praise where bird nests, going to Spain for liberty (8)

9 In speech, Shakespearean character

facing north wind (4)

13 Hopelessly aspiring to be seen around court, working as a lawyer? (10)

15 Energy put into shaping of ceramic

dish (3,5)

16 Gross to come in unshaven or

moustached (8)

17 Busy, as ladies often seem to be … (8) 19 … acute in writing, maybe. Alternatively, there’s one’s expression when talking … (6)

20 … blank, as gents often are!(6) 21 Visit source of Scottish river (4)