CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 3. A fence around the street? Get a lawyer (9) 8. Where rain would be a

change (4) 9. Eve – or a ship’s

officer (5,4) 10. It’s clear I’d start

drooping (6) 11. Proposals on them were made in the past (5) 14. Mother and son in the

building trade (5) 15. Bread upon the

waters (4) 16. A bit rough to us, but Americans think it’s great! (5) 18. Time to learn a

technical word (4) 20. A stadium near a ruin

(5) 21. Poet as yet bewildered

(5) 24. Pete gets round it,

being small (6) 25. Necessity’s child (9) 26.. Understands it’s

reversible (4) 27. Ways to gain

admission (9) DOWN 1. Tactful fellows (9) 2. Its practitioners will request a show of hands (9) 4. Desirous of upsetting

a singer (4) 5. Got up to change the

reins (5) 6. It goes before the fall

(6) 7. Is not any faster at

splitting points (4) 9. Northerners one may meet in noisy taverns? (5) 11. Observes, preserves

or reserves (5) 12. Occasionally I seem

most agitated (9) 13. Tease Lila about being

uncomfortable (3,2,4) 17. Many go to a port

when loaded (5) 19. Star that’s possibly

remote (6) 22. But it annoys having a

giant inside (5) 23. Soon to provide a

French negative (4) 24. Attractive Northern

point (4)