Crossword 2967

ACROSS

1 Norse mythology: the god of poetry and music (5) 8 A person who is released from prison on parole (7) 9 Metal-bearing rock mineral or rock (3)

10 Thrive; flourish (7) 12 Something that serves to bar passage, such as a fence or rail (7)

15 Decrease; decline (5)

17 _ one’s heart out (3) 18 Implement for writing or drawing using ink (3) 19 Protuberance; swelling (5) 20 Stimulus; impelling movement or force (7) 22 The main building of the US Congress (7)

24 A bread roll (3)

25 Go before in time or place (6) 26 To tolerate; put up with (5)

DOWN

1 Soak liquids (6)

2 Have a _ to pick (4)

3 Not sorry or penitent (10) 4 Two similar things matched for use together (4) 5 Impertinent; cheeky, saucy (8)

6 An order of a court of law (6) 10 Not general or complete (7) 11 Goods supplied for examination with an option to buy or return (2,8) 13 To become ill again after apparent recovery (8) 14 Waste piece of cloth (3) 16 Have a _ in one’s bonnet (3) 19 The muscles that flex the forearm (6) 21 Faculties by which the body perceives external stimuli (6) 23 Likelihood, probability (4) 24 Upper rim of a vessel (4) Yesterday’s solutions ACROSS 1 Once and for all 6 Stampede 8 Cane 10 LR 11 Owe 12 Radiant 3 Vent 14 Lily-livered 18 Fang 21 Numeric 23 Cog 24 OM 25 Iota 26 Puppetry 27 Once upon a time DOWN 2 Natural 3 Amplify 4 Recover 5 Linen 7 Era 9 Awe 15 Luggage 16 Exempla 17 Decorum 19 Acorn 20 Not 22 Mop