CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Without reference to others, plenty ended in confusion (13) 9. Turn it once, and it is kept in check (9)

10. Yellow may be unsatisfactory as an answer (5) 11 Person with great energy may do men out of it (5) 12. Wrongly-styled medics in a muddle about everything (9) 13. How Chopin turned moonlit scene into music (8) 15. Take one’s gun away to conciliate one (6)

18. Get by demo which may typify it (6)

20. Yielded to another’s wishes and had it put off (8) 23. Sport with poet or law-breaker (5,4)

24. Hand over to leading executive when past one’s best (5) 25. Say what it’s worth to have such tax added (5) 26. Sentimental people such as Beethoven and Brahms (9) 27. Relaxation of control in district one reorganised (13) DOWN 1. How often it occurs with nine dice making a hundred (9)

2. Of the CID, many are very energetic (7)

3. Around Canterbury it is unadorned (5)

4, 22. Miner’s miner son may be called Mills (4,4,6)

5. The one born first, being misled, is French (6)

6. How vital Kate could be, and loquacious (9)

7. May turn up with Luka perhaps in a skullcap (7)

8. The last of twenty Dons involved with the church council (5) 14. Rue having warned about one’s lingerie (9)

16. Half-way through summer, say, 11 is as upset as can be (3-6) 17. Seeker of political change may err from muddle with the East (8) 19. It can be preserved in a drunken state (7) 21. This composer, Sir, is no different (7) 22. See 4 23. One trying to attract our attention might vacillate (5) 24. May be treacherous, finding the Cup in pieces (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 7. Foster-parents 8. Lap of luxury 12. Angles 14. Events 16. Teller 18. Besets 19. Crossing out

23. Inconsistency

Down 1. Cool 2. Stop 3. Crofts 4. Salute 5. Beau 6. Stay 9. Angular 10. Rondeau 11. Isis 12. Asti 13. Eke 15. Vie 17. Resist 18. Banish 19. Cant 20. Oboe 21. Open 22. Tack