CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fiddle with private investigator’s seafood (6)

8 Trollop beginning to shine brass instrument (8) 9 Racing track circuits partly collapsed (4)

10 Bill ducks social prohibition (5)

11 Strip legislation to some extent (4)

12 Collect the rag somehow (6) 14 Thing entering Kent, it yawns (6)

16 The Spanish leave guest-house, but

return to jacuzzi (3,3)

19 Loudspeaker will irritate after time (6) 21 How 007 describes his career in

observation game (1-3)

23 Vagrants wasting time on slopes (5)

25 Think nothing of concealing cluster (4) 26 I trade when it’s unusual person who’s

impractical (8)

27 In the shop a queue cannot be seen

through (6)

DOWN

2 Double tea dance (3-3)

3 Thin fog was yearned for, we hear (4) 4 Line is round pub (6)

5 Narrow track made by ring in wood (6) 6 Muse about Australian runners (4)

7 Concerning the historical feast (6)

13 Smash success? (3)

15 Little unfinished container (3)

17 Edison may be in legal position,

sportingly (6)

18 Feathered friend welcomed on the golf

course (6)

19 Salad ingredient also found around

carpet (6)

20 From centres of York smog, blue

decorative alloy (6)

22 Time, end of May, one hears (4)

24 Flyer sees others heading west (4)