CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Will must go through this in

bare top, disoriented (7)

5 E.g. the 1960s, mainly dissolute (6)

9 One slip marred character of

Socrates (7)

10 Shade airborne troops circling lake (7)

11 Father loses last knight’s address (3)

12 Group of second rate celebs

that seals product? (7,4)

13 Chief of police called to crash

(5)

14 Milled rice or e.g. sugar originally among these? (9)

16 Liberal once clutched one

nervous girl for ride (9)

17 For example, lights of Falmouth, excluding estuary (5)

19 Fang, roughly square, also

tough initially and hard (6,5)

22 Mostly restrain first part of

19, say (3)

23 Book withdrawn by writer’s

arousing intense feeling (7)

24 Bishop and three Europeans

catch virus in colony (7)

26 Lover avoids M1 — it makes

her tense (6)

27 Female warrant officer is allowed to tour Netherlands (7)

DOWN

1 Exercise: people do it in lift on

ground floor (5-2)

2 Comment on job location with

a view of the opposition (11,4)

3 Everyone is governed by

martial law (3)

4 Nun drunk in centre of Rheims, displaying 7 there (5)

5 Bathe husband with minimal

clothing, sort of ligature (9)

6 Nurse’s profession lacking

energy (5)

7 I’d assist harassed group in

unhappy state (15)

8 Men smash obelisk I removed

(6)

12 Roll first of barrels, twisting

a leg (5)

14 George’s ordered to hold races for ambitious types (2-7)

15 Long time needed to deal

with upset horse (5)

16 Twice Kent opener is beaten,

playing on this (6)

18 Crime is nearly solved after

cycle’s seized (7)

20 Immature inhabitant ignores

time (5)

21 Steer front of boat in tight

bend (5)

25 Wood cherished by barrelmakers (3)