CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS: 3 With assurance, indeed (9)

8 Well-produced paintings? (4)

9 A reckoning that comes to nothing (5,4)

10 Revolutionary type of public legislation (3,3)

11 We hope the list includes her (5)

14 To be so, use some shorter sentences (5)

15 Sweet tryst? (4)

16 It’s the last in the home games (5)

18 Satisfies a consuming passion (4)

20 Strong drink? (5)

21 Gets saner, perhaps (5) 24 Scarcity of thread, possibly (6)

25 Just the type to make a good look-out? (9)

26 Peruvian began incautiously (4)

27 They may be suspended from the works – on account of timekeeping? (9)

DOWN: 1 Did something and was sent to prison (9)

2 Complicated tale a bore will add even more detail to (9)

4 It was enough for our ancestors (4)

5 It may be held up or down (5)

6 3 Across in action (6)

7 Type of linen one may walk on (4)

9 Came to nothing artistically (5)

11 Vessels were wrecked on the point (5)

12 I rub along, somehow, working hard (9)

13 Proceeded – to take the lead? (4,5)

17 A fool, and French, but worth having (5)

19 Finally massacred something holy (6)

22 Entertainment of a new kind? (5)

23 A centre of revolution (4)

24 This Major is an N.C.O (4)