CLASSIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 In and out I’d planned going after a try-out for part (8) 5 Support for hundred or smallish group (6) 9 Prisoner captured by nastier resident of small community (8) 10 Work room for maker of pictures (6) 11 Order poles to contain a tense disturbance (8) 12 Name of criminal or enemy (6) 14 When is turning taxi rank a help? (10) 18 What’s accomplished meant Titan could be trained (10) 22 Anticipate once but no longer favourite will catch cold (6) 23 Duchess almost alarmed by the French plan (8) 24 Salesman loved collecting loose ends (6) 25 Wryly said test left mild aversion (8) 26 Less polite about director - the one that determines course (6) 27 Put off date with Federer somehow (8)
DOWN
1 Commercial opening days before Christmas (6) 2 Greenback dung beetle holds everything up (6) 3 Isn’t worried about Royal Academy coaches (6) 4 Magic words make unusual sense in a poem perhaps (4,6) 6 Coin to toss up for trading settlements (8) 7 These dregs could turn out to be 2 (8) 8 Daughter under counter maybe thrashed (8) 13 Icing alone can produce this anaesthetic (10) 15 List of dates when a candle should be set up on back of altar (8) 16 Spot wild cat that’s spotted playwright (8) 17 Separate god on Mediterranean island (8) 19 London coppers let out copper say? (6) 20 Treasurer rubs up artist the wrong way (6) 21 Article I need to be edited for epic (6)
ACROSS
1 Hit the hay (2,2,3) 5 ___ ‘Up Mother Brown’, song (5) 8 Brooded (5) 9 Payment for corrupt favours (7) 10 Ticket printed by a shop's till (7) 11 Musical exercise (5) 12 Thick French soup (6) 14 Strong (6) 18 1960s supergroup that included Eric Clapton (5) 20 Gatecrash (7) 22 Mechanical, without emotion (7) 23 Storage space within a roof (5) 24 Medieval bailiff or steward (5) 25 Recommend (7)
DOWN
1 Chewy fruity sweet (7) 2 Issue, point (5) 3 Beginning to develop (7) 4 Discussion (6) 5 Sharp kitchen tool (5) 6 Accomplish (7) 7 Internet communication system (5) 13 Quake (7) 15 Superficial (7) 16 Dark syrup (7) 17 Geometrical shape with a radius (6) 18 Nurse or guardian (5) 19 Bishop's high hat (5) 21 Absolute (5)