CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Rotate arm? Not

quite all of it (7) 5 European skipper returns — and French missile (6) 9 Track what’s wrong

in wages (7) 10 Run-down dated B&B

that’s written off (3,4) 11 Note unit in Peru (3) 12 Fight totally bare? That’s out of order (6,5) 13 Heartily praise

old tax cut (5) 14 Silly mix-up of IV

(four) with 11 (9) 16 Favourite yacht’s wrecked? This won’t pay for it (5,4) 17 Modify plug fitting (5) 19 Stop dance music then tune in elsewhere (11) 22 Expected king to

avoid his son? (3) 23 Issue rabble-rousing speech left by leader (7) 24 Repair cart with the

toothed device (7) 26 Shin up and over

small church (6) 27 Arrangement of eastern books repeated on middle of shelf (7)

DOWN

1 Quick response that

may be piercing (7) 2 Key data required by

dressmaker (5,10) 3 Cut grass as a rule (3) 4 Severe pain in

alien country (5) 5 English doctor with English students is hard to improve (9) 6 Command

sequence (5) 7 Henry wanted oven overhauled from time to time (5,3,3,4) 8 Needle writer

once (6) 12 Mild and calm, not cold, immersed in Times (5) 14 Demolished apartment at No 10 Edward added (9) 15 Pontificate in Old English about traitor (5) 16 Like batter with

pressure put on (6) 18 Operations room

which houses energy engineers (7) 20 Type of green duck,

as it happens (5) 21 A way of transmitting

messages in bottle (5) 25 Fool visitor

at table (3)