The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Cryptic Crossword
Both sets of clues fit both grids
ACROSS
1 Rent out church with ditch (6)
5 Peer at John Wayne? (4)
9 Open up in fun capital (5)
10 Fifth TV programme? (3,4)
11 Six valid works for composer (7)
12 Brilliant success getting 150 in to dine (5)
13 Edible rubbish? (5)
15 Protest by bishop leads to discharge from the army (5)
20 Return a chunk of wood (5)
22 Day of fools, otherwise one based on theory (1,6)
24 Sincere listener’s taken home (7)
25 Cause confusion involving Foreign Office in petition (5)
26 Beams to lift, you say? (4)
27 Further performance makes people lose head and heart (6)
DOWN
2 Get back to put the lid on again (7)
3 Country where plane repaired
4 Idle chatter gives balloonists a lift (3,3)
5 In deep trouble, allowed to cut down (7)
6 Hear boy act submissively (5)
7 Sweep’s ventriloquist starts to enter healing (5)
8 Fury with old Holmes actor? Not half! (5)
14 Actors in the football team? (7)
16 Available for one worried about fine (2,5)
17 Instruments seen in old band or exciting symphonic overtures (5)
18 Tower of London rook? (6)
19 Travel round grand hilltop (5)
21 Behold! The Navy has a girl! (5)
23 Beer spilt about medieval instrument (5)