Weekend Herald

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. It gave Belloc a lead to the scene of the event (6)

4. Is shining with intelligen­ce (6)

9. Around a morass the hunted animals are yellow (7)

10. It’s an awkward way to dye (5)

11. One accepted that graft was successful (4)

12. New wine must be shaken (4)

13. Is expected not to finish the four-handed version (3)

15. Bustle about with a Communist of a sort (4)

16. Smooth-spoken Latin one finds in the British Isles (4)

19. Something chewed by what chewers are set in (3)

21. Hasn’t got the go-ahead for such a secluded retreat (4)

22. Welfare cheque will disappear if Inland Revenue’s involved (4)

24. What Spanish cowboy would use a sort of tiara? (5)

25 Crass ad put out about a dance in Hungary (7)

26. Will not be in a hurry to wed lad like this (6)

27. They may have a right to be robust (6)

DOWN

1. Not being heavy-handed is one’s attitude to theft (5,8)

2. Give solace, from being upset in bed (7)

3. Kitty taken up on sort of line that returns (4)

5. Might look like rebels – me included (8)

6. Secreting structure in a sort of nut (5)

7. Controvers­ially yield to Sun ten versions of it (13)

8. Time to type it out for the contemptib­le (5)

14. Collapse of lad flown out for it (8)

17. He doesn’t want one to see such a drinking-spree (7)

18. Kangaroo needs it to hop around University College (5)

20. Aim to turn up nothing worse, at first, than a catcall (5)

23. Mistiness he found going around Arizona (4)

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