£50 PRIZE CROSSWORD

1 Dotes excessively and panders to the deer’s youngsters (5) 4 A hug for me returning with a pair of partridges, say (7)

8 A troublemaker with a spurtle or wooden spoon (7)

9 This person isn’t successful when the roles get swapped (5) 10 Lots and lots, belonging to Dickens’ Uriah, we hear (5) 11 Keep quiet and strap yourself into the car (4,2)

14 Brought little Des O’Donnell back and gave some medicine (5) 16 Dad briefly takes Ian inside to see the goddess of the hunt (5) 18 A reshown TV programme about the crofters’ fuel (6)

21 Get less intense with a lure, we hear (5) 24 Move a little budgie after yours truly leaves (5)

25 A new arrival in an area of no crime, surprisingly (7)

26 Mike loses heart and quits Emmerdale anxiously hunting for a precious stone (7) 27 Take the sliced meat inside – don’t dine out (3,2) 1 Refuses to reveal the electricity circuit breaker (4)

2 Water is poured out for the restaurant workers (7)

3 The car sped off having scratched and removed the paint (7) 4 Listeners take part in the middle of the rehearsals (4)

5 Stupid talk and nonsense in the bottom of the ship (5) 6 When the seat’s recovered it will be a valuable thing (5)

7 A citizen who uses the EU’s currency? No, a rupee possibly (8) 12 Snip off bits of the buddleia to make a Hawaiian garland (3) 13 Able to take Dora inside, being so cute and lovely (8)

15 The Pitlochry detective finally spots a needle hole (3)

16 What a fiasco when the bed is turned over onto sick Alec (7) 17 Have a go at tracing a little Moffat temptress (7)

19 Father Howerd, a priest, is heading north shortly (5)

20 An era arises of Rome’s Colosseum, for example (5)

22 Failed to be honest about the Deil (4)

23 I take Weasley to a golf club (4)