Weekend crossword
2077
ACROSS
1 Dissuading workers choosing to admit little alien? (9)
6 Selfsatisfied, with beginning of sneer
on face (4)
10 Relocates backsliding prophet, about to
take the chair (25)
11 Evangelist, a job the Spanish rejected
(7)
12 Watch, with face protected, a horse
used in the chase (6)
13 Acknowledged being initiated (8)
14 An expert on Russia, so has to strive to
see the point (13)
18 Editor, going into strange Welsh things, reveals hithertounknown information
(5, 3, 5)
20 A Catholic form of psalm for givers of
light (35)
22 Stomach turns over in place that’s
filthy, obscene (6)
24 Returned to teacher to get a dish of rice
(7)
25 France has beer sent round treaty
organisation (7)
26 Hot dish of food splashes back (4)
27 US truckdrivers meet stars on the
move (9)
DOWN
1 Buy tea in a small bag (8)
2 When one eggs, in the Civil Service,
amorous chaps (9)
3 Execution. That’s most violent, most
awful plan yet (7, 7)
4 Foreign girl in the Civil Service (4) 5 Magnificent doings are broadcast (9) 7 Musical work encountered
incorporating the Old Testament (5) 8 Rapacious rush in extremes of gluttony
(6) 9, 15 What a downandout has, or a
person levitating on stage? (2, 7, 5, 2, 7) 16 Circus equipment that may choke a
wearer of pearls? (54)
17 Lacking support, don’t remain in the
place so much (8)
19 A bishop installed in his Hebridean
island (6)
21 Get rid of eastern social class (5) 23 Fatuous, the reverse of a joke (4)