£50 PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tries to reshape the sections of the wedding cake (5)

4 The most difficult? It’s those tangled threads (7)

8 Sped around the oil that’s ruined (7)

9 A wee nibble of Anita’s teacakes (5)

10 A cricketer who could be silly? No, dim in retrospect (3-2) 11 Lottie is jumping about – find the little girl’s room! (6)

14 People from Helsinki are in a

Turriff inn singing (5) 16 A blade? Kathy needs it for envelopes, primarily (5)

18 Once in a blue moon, the models go astray (6)

21 It’s moon man Mr Armstrong, by the sound of it – show deference! (5) 24 A little Govan niece for Scotland’s Miss Lennox (5)

25 Sid, Ann and I travelled to see people in Calcutta (7)

26 Keen? Yes, Rae is returning to the nest (7) 27 Lady M is dancing passionately (5)

DOWN

1 An examination for cricketers? (4)

2 An old boy from a posh school – i.e. Anton possibly (or Boris for sure) (7)

3 Wild West public houses? Yes, Al’s soon sozzled (7)

4 Lie low, they say, in this London park (4)

5 A percentage from the aristocrat? I object! (5)

6 A stretch of Chelsea, seldom used to display artwork (5) 7 Places where the actors are seen? Yes, sat there by accident (8) 12 A group of eyewitnesses of a TV news provider (1,1,1) 13 Where actors can’t be seen – at Geoff’s get-together (3,5)

15 The den is turned upside down to find Aussie outlaw Kelly (3) 16 Charles III has one – and Richard III offered to swap his for a horse (7)

17 Where the Erin lad does a jig (and it makes a real din) (7)

19 A cold fish?

There’s one in Little Rock initially (5) 20 Really plump? That’s a few of the geese, boiled up (5)

22 A troublesome trio in a lawless free-for-all (4) 23 Glimpse a string of Inverness-shire’s pylons (4)