CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Very old animal’s lungs have right to admit daylight (7,6)

9. Garden angelica is like a seraph (9)

10. Setting in of a current is net outcome of it (5)

11. A man with the skill to be a card (5)

12. Quick to take in vice, Peter was reformed (9)

13. Compute it too high when one can’t see the sun (8)

15. Florentine family physician took one on (6)

18. Claim to reward may be a waste (6)

20. Crazy people take time indeed (8)

23. In case no net can be used in style of cooking (9)

24. Crazy fellow put in charge (5)

25. A sort of bread for a bird (5)

26. Laziness it may need Colin to correct (9)

27. Promotes him as a form of transformation (13)

DOWN

1. A hard icon to manipulate, like cobweb (9)

2. Cod, cake of which makes a rosette for the hat (7)

3. Topless people perform to establish it by law (5)

4. How fierce-tempered is the rig to make it? (8)

5. Being fortunate, might link copper with it (2,4)

6. Switch a musical a bit (9)

7. Ham is twice mixed with raw fish dish (7)

8. On which to turn Franco-British articles (5)

14. A glutton might cram, or not (9)

16. Those enlisted for one decent US manoeuvre (9)

17. The goalie might have freed end for him (8)

19. Both can, and must, provide a very private room (7)

21. A number of workers are in rented accommodation (7)

22. It can lie around in a strong smell of gas (6)

23. Act up, perhaps, for the head (5)

24. A good deal of leaftop involved in surface dressing (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across: 1. Croup 4. Cycling 8. Up to the minute 10. Attic 11. Nail 12. Stem 16. Cupid 17. Under pressure

19. Earwigs 20. Press

Down: 1. Counting-house 2. Out 3. Pathan 4. Create 5. Clinch

6. Inundated 7. Grease-monkeys 9. Mail order 13. Octroi 14. Spurns

15. Adds up 18. Use