Double Crossword
ACROSS
1 Said to add fat when stuck in camp (5) 4 Ineffectual leader provided rich material and nothing else (4,4) 9 Discordant middle eight receiving a position on the scale (7) 10 Truant is absent during catwalk (7) 11 Partial to breakers of criminal groups, if they act very quickly (4,11) 12 Grain of elms or spruce? (6) 13 Likely loser to drudge on unhappily (8) 16 Confused intelligence with holding blue chips (8) 18 Young steed welcoming the graduate element (6) 21 Flighty one sees feminist in fort with single hanger (15) 24 Fight and quarrel over bird (7) 25 Stopgap during winter immovability (7) 26 Watch transmitted with crooked line (8) 27 Left in firm belief (5)
DOWN
1 Somehow able to swallow the end of spring roll (5) 2 Initially soft speaker and obsessive follower (7) 3 Making money but strangely owing during clearance (5,4) 4 Megastar may finish behind ordinary member (6) 5 Declining to have part of the chest carried in barrow (8) 6 Nudes frolicking behind the beach (5) 7 Milking worker when almost tied up with rope (7) 8 Observation that rowing team takes in the affirmative (8) 12 Show cargo list (8) 14 Teeming cities got to be absorbed by the self (9) 15 Dig a hole but let the donkey finish first (6,2) 17 Force goat, oddly enough, to be admitted to wedding party (7) 19 Lifetime spent outside exceptional German inn (7) 20 Failed financially without the canny input of one's son (6) 22 Cap raised in the Jacobite Rebellion (5) 23 Work connected up in time (5)
FRIDAY’S SOLUTION
Across: - 1 Sable. 4 Cucumber. 9 Recital. 10 Cadaver. 11 Go without saying. 12 Putter. 13 Timeworn. 16 Threaten. 18 Mental. 21 On the right lines. 24 Emanate. 25 Noisome. 26 Tapestry. 27 Sitar. Down: - 1 Sprig. 2 Backwater. 3 Entitle. 4 Callow. 5 Cocktail. 6 Mediate. 7 Envoi. 8 Original. 12 Pathogen. 14 Out and out. 15 Reticent. 17 Average. 19 Eclairs. 20 Shandy. 22 Tiara. 23 Shear.
ACROSS
1 Drinking vessel (5) 4 Adverse reaction, recoil (8) 9 Falsehood (7) 10 Regions around the Equator (7) 11 Undertaker (7,8) 12 Actor (6) 13 Unattractiveness (8) 16 Involving the home or family (8) 18 Slow musical passage (6) 21 Tending to harm oneself (4-11) 24 Artist's workshop (7) 25 Hard material made by firing clay (7) 26 Varieties of the same element with differing numbers of neutrons (8) 27 Wall painting (5)
DOWN
1 Rough or abrupt in speech (5) 2 Insect's feeler (7) 3 Bushy-tailed rodents (9) 4 Look at (6) 5 Newspaper clippings (8) 6 Lax (5) 7 Saliva (7) 8 Strong black coffee (8) 12 Statue's base (8) 14 Impropriety, unseemliness (9) 15 Landing field (8) 17 Dairy cows (7) 19 Twinkle (7) 20 Melee (6) 22 Float aimlessly (5) 23 Distinguish oneself (5)
FRIDAY’S SOLUTION
Across: - 1 Scrub. 4 Sociable. 9 Angular. 10 Coconut. 11 Hospitalisation. 12 Shrine. 13 Vascular. 16 Larboard. 18 Sticky. 21 Domestic animals. 24 Tumbril. 25 Collier. 26 Caresses. 27 Tangy. Down: - 1 Stash. 2 Registrar. 3 Billion. 4 Serial. 5 Cyclical. 6 Archaic. 7 Lanai. 8 Stingray. 12 Solidity. 14 Lactation. 15 Articles. 17 Observe. 19 Triplet. 20 Caucus. 22 Mamba. 23 Stray.