CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Salesman in meat product backed Ordnance Survey staff (7)

5. Pulses could make broths (6)

9. Toy book, extremely tawdry (7)

10. More muscular team developed that is top in rugby (7)

11. Knight is going round with king (3)

12. Bored male excited about All Blacks award (6,5) 13. Herb tucked into healthy meal (5)

14. Anyone can upset pest (9) 16. Scandalous Number 10 tours rearranged (9) 17. Confused during flat season (2,3)

19. He or she, say, the owner of a 12 Across? (5,6)

22. Roughly time twin-hulled boat (3)

23. Eskimo managed to cross river, causing 14 Across (7) 24. Sore sailor beginning to suffer tax (7)

26. Order in tons to protect hideaway (6)

27. Serene Harry with Conservative hosting Yankee (7)

Down

1. Scuffed denims teenager’s first train of thought? (4-3) 2. Penniless Ricky overspent badly around end of Au- gust (7-8)

3. Occasionally reveal catch (3)

4. Authority is silent, by the look of it (3-2)

5. Fliers confused by these changes in size? Not me (4,5)

6. Field Spanish football team missing second half (5)

7. Financial organisation the target of government? (8,7)

8. Interrogate European bars (6)

12. Dim pub stocks ale with no head (5)

14. Reparation agreed with crew getting tense (9) 15. Badly want a rupee in cash in Japan (5)

16. Fool Northern Irish bird watcher? Not half! (6) 18. Butcher trains a skilled worker (7)

20. Hammered emblem of peace over back of door (5)

21. Oblique line cuts frame (5) 25. Very large South Ameri can coin (3)