Crossword

A prize of £15 in book tokens will be awarded for the first correct solution opened. Solutions must reach Crossword No 4608, Country Life, Pinehurst II, Pinehurst Road, Farnborough Business Park, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 7BF, by

Tuesday, Dec 10. UK entrants only.

ACROSS

8 Log out hooligan disrupting seat of Vietnamese National Assembly (5) 9 Labour seat? (9) 10 Partial men form legislature

(10) 11 Sharp Conservative cuts

benefit (4) 12 Piles into glib speech (5) 13 Battle against legal body (9) 14 Record opinion for hornless

animal (4) 16 Partial newspaper records (5) 17 Constituency chair (4) 21 Good and right to take each

insult as relative (5-4) 23 Conservative member to rise

(5) 24 Distribute treaty (4) 25 Makes choice to veto again actors from South Africa (5,1,4) 26 Defeat you and I in socialist group randomly formed (9) 27 Greek letter to veto cotton fabric (5)

DOWN

1 Improves increased outlines (6,2) 2 Earl in it arguing still (8) 3 Lib rise seen as ridiculous (7) 4 Figure in government who is also in another administration? (7,8) 5 Rats go round bush in gliding movements (8) 6 Rare oats used in devices to introduce air (8) 7 A Reich order is more painful (6) 15 Let false claims go into election literature (8) 16 Former leader who covered the house (8) 18 Is copied in instalments (8) 19 Propose to lift flower container to furniture surface (8) 20 Withdraw mark (7) 22 Trot eating fish turned round

(6)