Weekend crossword

ACROSS

1 Quiet game for one’s artless party (13) 3 Most of the fruit is about to tilt — they

want posts (10)

10 Woman of parts caught in a lock (7) 11 Artist’s interpretation of ‘‘Seamist’’ (7) 12 Ask for trouble, e.g., an invasion of

moles at Wimbledon? (5,8)

14 Engineers genial French article to get

back old flame (8)

15 Learner in open country may be good,

bad or drunk (6)

17 With the tee transposed, a baby can do

it (6)

19 Fix a portion in reserve (3,5) 22 Becoming smitten, collapsing with no

score (7,2,4)

24 Bob grovels and doodles (7) 25 Treasured possession we brought back

— Mabel’s woolly (34)

26 All in gauze, very thin gossamer (10) 27 Sound made by a golfcourse cat (4)

DOWN

1 Cain murdered, Rev? That’s not true

(10) 2 Unexpected guests take it — fluke at

the snookertable? (34)

4 Sucker’s sick, tucking into dough (8) 5 August feast to beat mother’s (6) 6 Snubs the artist, severs ties (4,3,7)

7 I snort, discordantly and long — it lets

the air in (7)

8 The fat plead for end of diet (4) 9 Encounter between his place and hers?

Compromising! (7,43) 13 I gab about a mad character on telly

(10)

16 Writer about to correspond in the

shade of some vegetables (35)

18 To use constraint, pro must go in from

’ere (7)

20 Brit has no part in abnormality,

deviation from rule (7)

21 Liqueur drink in rickshaw, last two

being knocked out (6)

23 Uncle’s last shilling goes to me, girl (4)