CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 3. One missile after another produces nasty surprise (9) 8. Classical victim of wartime investment (4) 9. At-home can be spoiled by interference (9) 10. Endless attraction about the religious reformer (6) 11. Having been sent into the blue, made a slippery descent (5) 14. Health food! (5) 15. Archaicisms will be out

of this (4) 16. A pie’s cooked this

colour (5) 18. To show approval for this sort of trap is nonsense (4) 20. It’s used for putting room back-stage (5) 21. One who escapes has

broken this (5) 24. What members of the board do is straightforward (6) 25. Roman officer involved

in recount! (9) 26. The sauce that’s yet to

be used (4) 27. The one who should get

the post (9) DOWN 1. In which lithe acts

become complicated (9) 2. Drawing of doorway

with interior beam (9) 4.& 7Dn. Fail to notice what

supervisors do (8) 5. Cheerless magistrate

about fifty (5) 6. What redundancy encompasses is enmity (6) 7. See 4 Down 9. Doesn’t play a good man

in the reserves (5) 11. Composer leaves late

meal unfinished (5) 12. A rash fellow risked

sinfulness (4-5) 13. Put back in office to control the government (9) 17. A drink going round a

second time (5) 19. Strong ale – he may

have a load on! (6) 22. Raw material in a vessel produces unpleasant blemishes (5) 23. Take note of some of

the editorials (4) 24. Before the end of the lecture a fellow is exhausted (4)