£50 PRIZE CROSSWORD

1 Reveals the identity of the man returning to heartless Eve’s (5)

4 Cor! Upset with a monarch moving back and forth (7) 8 Intimidates guys with the top cards (7) 9 Grown-up Sis has to leave the angry dualists (5)

10 A well-mannered, considerate guy – 007 perhaps (5) 11 Overcharge or swindle folk with a sheep’s woolly coat (6) 14 O, a little sister finds a refuge in a very hot place (5)

16 Shut the entrance passageway to the tenement (5)

18 Relaxes on the surface of the pool – it’s so flat somehow (6) 21 Slow-witted or thick as a brick? Needs to be stimulated (5) 24 Sprang into the air? Yes, Lea has to have physical training (5) 25 Blush with embarrassment and become communist (4,3)

26 Crazy – imitating a dog in a Greater London suburb (7) 27 Mae comes back after the doctor has a nightmare (5) 1 Unfeeling and a bit of a numbskull (4)

2 Guy gets older and runs the business (7) 3 Another helping of the meal for the boxers’ assistants (7)

4 Cunning scheme is sure to go wrong (4) 5 Beg on hands and knees – young children do it (5)

6 Sign on a locked loo door in the terminus eatery (2,3) 7 Doesn’t receive the odds – and settles the score (4,4)

12 Serve up a few leeks with the fish (3) 13 A driver, say, in Muirfield or Royal Portrush perhaps (4,4) 15 Bottom-of-theclass student leaves Dunipace to get a hoppy beer (1,1,1) 16 Brightened up and removed all the dishes from the table (7) 17 Watch and pay close attention to the ridiculously verbose (7) 19 The stretch of Iona I remembered being broadcast (2,3) 20 Dustin Hoffman’s cross-dressing movie, we hear, for a Rwandan minority (5)

22 Guy’s party helps to make the host agitated (4)

23 The first man who had no mum – a mad mix-up (4)