CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

8/12

ACROSS

1. Public space or garden for the ordinary (6)

4. Called for half of Easter to be spent by sea off Nice (6)

9. One is insensible of aura, given new twist (7)

10. How potter will make things worth reassembling (5)

11. Castor or Pollux may link one town with another (4)

12. To have a meal one found in the end to be wrong (4)

13. To go in for slalom and perhaps risk losing lead (3)

15. Old, mature area with no clear-cut distinctions (4)

16. Bang one’s toe, and top of shin, on the bath (4)

19. Vessel one will leave in the street without a top to it (3)

21. Quickly went and created rent (4)

22. It’s short for a dog, the first terrier (4)

24. Organised campaign for home approach? (5)

25. Coal transporter one will send to the bottom (7)

26. Put oil and vinegar on celery finally well turned out (6)

27. A bird will knock it back with the rubbish (6)

DOWN

1. Dom created nun, orders being revoked thereby (13)

2. Men gain a new sort of significance (7)

3. Stone work is only half genuine (4)

5. Earnest plea or yen to treat it otherwise (8)

6. Signs for currency used abroad (5)

7. Where in London Town red gent is to get sorted out (7,6)

8. The terms of reference say: Send the money! (5)

14. Don’t take so much time off if you’re fidgety (8)

17. To storm and rage and make about fifty brutes scatter (7)

18. It’s obscene, this sort of profit! (5)

20. Chef in kitchen takes back what he uses in it (5)

23. Father is about to take up with Mother two-thirds dormant (4)