Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS 1. Crop destroyer mislaid, having copper in (6)

4. A sour shower? (4,4)

9. Bigoted row ran haywire (6)

10. Reflected the mode I acquired the 3Rs (8)

12. Red might happen to arrest one (9)

13. The favourite fruit of one’s eye (5)

14. Plots with him as I cannot be put out (12)

18. By God’s ordering I proved Latin was responsibl­e for it (12) 21. Fit one out for the East with a short, clever remark (5)

22. The upbringing of runt in rug put out for it (9)

24. A review of credit one gets is quite different (8)

25. End in being taken in by bass (6)

26. It muffles the report of cries Len makes (8)

27. It could elapse if one’s ‘off’ (6)

DOWN

1. The women who worked on farms could put the troops ashore (4,4)

2. Shell makes the limo go fast (8)

3. It could be the onset of weight (5)

5. Their charges are only small (5,7)

6. He joined the Three Musketeers and somehow got a grand tan (9)

7. Sudden as a burp may be, starting tea (6)

8. Showed one agreed, got off, and went to sleep (6)

11. For each escapade, perhaps (12)

15. Inward burst will ruin port, one works out (9)

16. Make as little as possible of what is in mime (8)

17. The admiral’s craft in a flap? Sigh about it (8)

19. Uses foil if one handles something hot (6)

20. Almost blue, air that is circulatin­g at interment (6)

23. Single numbers may be used as kitchen fitments (5)

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