CRYPTIC Crossword

PICTURE CLUES

16ac & 10ac & 24ac ACROSS

1 Quite a bit smaller than a moa, Abe. In fact is microscopic (6)

4 Looks like you have taken the skin off. Let’s get the numbers again (6)

9 The facts of life have their laws (4)

10 See 16 Across

11 It’s Ms Boyle. Get a hankie (6)

12ac & 17dn First in the naturalist 100m dash? In fact has a series of firsts!... (1,7,6) 13 ... and guaranteed to be red-nosed (8)

15 One item at 1dn or many (3)

16 & 10ac This movie may frighten sheik (3,6,4)

17 Gets the run down at the beach (4- 4)

20 A rosette for the marine creature (3,5)

22 House parts – Anne’s are green (6)

24 The main actor had to wait to be in this movie role (3,7) 25 A square meal? No – a round one (4)

26 When it comes to blow it is

27 hair raising (6)

So return with a blemish from the awards (6)

DOWN

1 You can buy lots of things here ( 7)

2 Where they create the start of a dry beer? (5)

3 Naked aliens at the restaurant counters! ( 7) 5 Timeless return of fragrant resin (5)

6 Ridden elk? Will have to be lit again (9)

7 An avid flying birdwatcher? Made a bolt for it (4,3) 8 A place where no man is?... (6)

14 ... wrong as he usually is (9) 16 Bootee the daring baby bit on, cut ( 7)

17 See 12 Across

18 The army got out of East Germany but it all comes to nothing ( 7)

19 They have their selling points ( 7)

21 Place where there is a shroud of mystery (5)

23 Drum beat Ted stole from Southeast Asia (5)