CROSSWORD NO 02

ACROSS

1 Sounds like seating the

gentleman would be fruity (6) 4 Cult perm tweaks musically (8) 9 Storage for fat pause (6) 10 Shipper of permit or

permutation (8)

12 Edge around it to a mixed-up

parrot (8)

13 Frosty around ring I’d reverse

first is senseless (6)

15 So Iran has opium construction

tight (12)

18 Improving with age, this is the

first stage (4,8)

21 Coloured in knots (3-3) 22 Wealthy place or loaded

conversion (8)

24 Rise in elite VAT (8)

25 Writer’s block (6)

26 Small deposits of calcium the French dig for and find hemimorphite (8)

27 Acid used in tights (6)

DOWN

1 Muse about local pie (8)

2 Third artery it reconstructed (8) 3 Computer software has pity on

gamesters modification (9,6) 5 Whitewash with fruit (4)

6 Place of make-believe could lack

con duo transformation (5-6-4) 7 Divide apportionment (6) 8 Sufferer of man around affected

interest (6)

11 Sounds like another but doesn’t

mean it’s the same thing (7) 14 Fairly religiously (7) 16 Processing speed in a golf pig

(8)

17 Sceptic about coatings (8) 19 Slanted twisted tail I note (6) 20 Insect you and I by badness (6) 23 Knock out floor (4)