Double Crossword
ACROSS
1 Native land (6,7) 10 Fur spread in front of a fire (6,3) 11 Beg, sponge (5) 12 Protection, sponsorship (5) 13 The former St Petersburg (9) 14 Countertenors (5) 16 Television, radio and the press (4,5) 18 Persuaded (9) 19 Cut into strips (5) 20 In the act (3-6) 23 Vision (5) 25 Wedge of wood used to prevent a vehicle rolling (5) 26 Pliable, tractable (9) 27 Echidna (5,8)
DOWN
2 Great ape of Borneo and Sumatra (5-4) 3 Loathes (5) 4 From the country (5) 5 Efficient, well-arranged (9) 6 Sobriquets, monikers (9) 7 Horseman (5) 8 Flightless South American bird (4) 9 Promontory (8) 14 Precision (8) 15 Native of Colombo (3,6) 16 Queensland nut (9) 17 Navigable airship (9) 21 Sag (5) 22 Blue and white earthenware (5) 23 Tuscan city (5) 24 Swarm, be crawling with (4)
ACROSS
1 Family discussion about Wall Street? (5,8) 10 Provided in original and penultimate match (4-5) 11 Path to follow around the side of the road (5) 12 A sea dog’s back on the charts (5) 13 Mite upset about press and pressing (9) 14 Yawning as a page turns (5) 16 Puzzling is setter’s sorrow (9) 18 Trappings that tie up men in knots, without question (9) 19 Taken at intervals from statue near Bath (5) 20 Cats never unnerve Quixotic man of letters (9) 23 Vehicle in science fiction was comforter (5) 25 Bacteria liquefying ice floe’s core (1,4) 26 Cut down in waste with some nice rubbish strewn around the ring (9) 27 Pull someone’s leg and make off with the star of Disneyland (4,3,6)
DOWN
2 Version of the Talmud in a part of India (5,4) 3 Clouts on ends of one’s sleeves (5) 4 Tedium of the funnier interior variety (5) 5 Critic, perhaps, of new muslin lining for bed (9) 6 In state, do damage to counter agents (9) 7 Fruit taken from the pith of saguaro by the Navajo (5) 8 Land mass raised in the Dubai sands (4) 9 Leave oar out of solution for sun damage (4,4) 14 Years since refitting offices (8) 15 Put weight on mass in heap, sorted by magnitude (9) 16 Fraction that went into making up tithe (9) 17 Regiments advise taking trainee on submarine excursion (5,4) 21 Wine and juice provided in aircraft (5) 22 High point in original Shakespearean manuscript of The Tempest (5) 23 As it is written, or bandied about, to the patient (5) 24 Bolted on hearing of viral infection (4)