£50 PRIZE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Robbers’ leader is in the shed to cut up the paperwork (5) 4 Reid and Pat got tipsy and celebrated like No.10 (7)
8 Men set out into the dark to reach this EU country (7) 9 Winter footwear for
the chemists (5) 10 Flies off the handle when the gears get damaged (5)
11 A monster is seen swimming around
(6)
14 Annoyed? Yes,
Kirk lost the head with Mr Balls (5) 16 Photographs of small glasses of tequila perhaps (5) 18 Able to take teetotaller round for Scottish sweet (6) 21 A jelly is clearly shown in Nigella’s pictures (5) 24 English composer Sir Edward spilled the lager (5)
25 Vera is involved in the age of the mean and mediocre (7) 26 Chats about the Spanish old-style school bag (7) 27 Sounds like it isn’t a slight contamination (5)
DOWN
1 Wee Diana’s upset over Edinburgh’s top team (4)
2 Moved quickly with a hessian bag to plunder (7)
3 A cul-de-sac that leads to the cemetery? (4,3)
4 We hear it’s a mountain top lapdog from China (4)
5 Troubled Dot has to go for the Russian money (5) 6 The sort of solid favourites that fans adore (5)
7 Go separate ways and confuse the
Red spies (8)
12 The fifth note is from
Mendelssohn (3) 13 Pain after Sid pulled up a long lock of hair (8)
15 Fish is served with chopped up leeks
(3)
16 Tampered with a cup, Tess? Yes, the accused (7)
17 Mira and I go off to see the art of folding sheets (7)
19 This intolerant guy must return to Gibraltar shortly (5) 20 Where the foxes live with little fear – Thurso (5)
22 The loot is in a large
public room, say (4) 23 Clark of the Daily Planet is known in Scotland (4)
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