£50 PRIZE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Hoodwinks or makes a fool of an awful pseud (5)
4 Memory loss when a name is confused (7) 8 Great agreement? So what – who cares! (3,4)
9 Bring back a slab of the lightweight wood for model-making (5) 10 Is wee Alan able to spot the Caledonian or Crinan waterway? (5) 11 May’s first yodel turned out to have a pleasant tune (6) 14 Assignations to obtain fruit from the palms (5)
16 A heavenly body! Yes, that’s me lying in the baby’s bed (5) 18 Bored by the same old routine – it’s a Turin problem (2,1,3)
21 Use the moving stair to see the stringed Indian instrument (5) 24 Sounds like a wooden entrance that leads to worship (5) 25 A sudden urge and I’m taking peas or beans, for instance (7) 26 A movie stunt person in the west – and India (5-2)
27 Ma must leave messy Mondays to Sir James’s cleaner (5)
DOWN
1 Outstanding payment of French and British Telecom (4) 2 Excitedly gape at Dec’s friend in this colourful procession (7) 3 Notice woodcutting tools to make the kids’ up-and-down items in a playground (7) 4 Competent and up for the task in Elba, looking back (4)
5 A bit of a snob – Leonard’s a member of the aristocracy (5) 6 Olav’s shaken by the noisy 41-gun salute to Prince Philip maybe (5) 7 Al’s nasty about TV news commentators and sports gurus (8) 12 The sign of some little ones (3)
13 Sam and the laird sailed away with the navy bosses (8) 15 Blunder of just turning up in Forres (3) 16 Made the sound of a small bird from the perch I’d repaired (7) 17 Al seems to be sick with a contagious disease (7) 19 Somewhat illogical, O’Hara gets a hello and cheerio in Hawaii (5) 20 Sadly unperturbed after Rupert leaves with a piece of bathroom piping (1-4)
22 A notice or poster of the specially distilled gins (4)
23 Rowan Atkinson’s legume (4)
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