Crossword

MORE CROSSWORDS IN TABLOID!

ACROSS

1 It stops worker going on main line (7)

5 Quick coffee? (7)

9 State in which a priest entertains a bishop (7)

10 Is a name recollected? Not with this! (7)

11 Elves seen cooking snack (9) 12 Parched, swallowing cold bitter (5)

13 Coat American found behind recreational area (5)

15 Start talk having necked one drink (9)

17 Cigar that’s brown put back in Spanish dish (9)

19 Piano used in old-time musical drama? (5)

22 Body part’s temperature given approximately (5) 23 Mere agent prepared contract (9)

25 Look North? (7) 26 Smooth head shaved close (7)

27 Say gold piece (7) 28 Power seized by wickedly secret Bond foe (7)

DOWN

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Fish brought in to eat for complete change (5-2) 2 Unpaid player’s tum area out of shape (7)

3 Top-class puzzle – wow! (5) 4 One spotted in woods? Amphibians also seen by lake (9)

5 Single mothers and learned theologians (5)

6 Country moans – rain all over the place! (3,6) 7 American student leaves one country for another (7) 8 Loveless pair become confused in senseless talk (7) 14 Approve increase after Henry invested in car (9) 16 Revolutionary princess rises up behind (2,7) 17 Scooped-out potato on board fit to ingest (7) 18 English sailor hurried over to tell story (7)

20 Severe storms enshrouding Chomolungma (7) 21 Performer such as Garfunkel is brought to vacant theatre (7) 23 Volatile Stan harbours good and bad feeling (5) 24 Mysterious European republic on the up (5)