CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Make secure by making secure (6)

4 Said to be sign of percussion disc (6)

8 Share of unfinished tea plantation is restricted (7) 10 Not so young tree (5)

11 Unacceptable idea one rejected (3,2) 12 Strange piece of work for Bond villain (6) 13 Learner getting stuck in A-roads every time (6) 15 Get ready to exercise and feel the heat (4,2) 19 Show up a Republican split (6)

21 Suggest spreading fire round the North (5) 24 Walk noisily to the end of short slope (5) 25 Capital, is it holding politician back? (7)

26 Fury about ultimately horrible ring of flowers (6) 27 From pollen, tilled an edible seed (6)

DOWN

1 Wrote under sound building (7)

2 Very little tin found in the street (5)

3 Strange boy’s heading off to New York (7)

5 You first lied about the harvest (5)

6 Lack of etiquette in rotten class (3,4) 7 Reportedly praise aristocrat (4)

9 Make progress without head in college (4) 14 Conflict caused by serving up uncooked food (7) 16 Is returning surrounded by a number – that’s stupid (7) 17 One-sided but incomplete (7)

18 Encounter swarm travelling north (4) 20 Confused Russian premier doing data entry (5) 22 Move swiftly, run inside to make advances (5) 23 Cook has to worry (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Start (a computer) again (6) 4 Fairground game (4-2) 8 Very typical of its kind (7) 10 Sudden rush (5) 11 Discernment (5)

12 Of fruit acid (6) 13 Accumulated junk (6) 15 Ghosts, apparitions (6) 19 Demurely (6)

21 Make modifications to (5) 24 Proof of whereabouts (5) 25 Particular form of a book (7) 26 Modes (6)

27 Regions within a federal republic (6)

DOWN

1 Rendition (7)

2 Alloy of copper and zinc (5) 3 Disgusting (7)

5 Start (5) 6 Colonnade (7)

7 Peak (4)

9 Male chicken (4)

14 With glee (7) 16 Keyboard performer (7) 17 Alice ___, Australian town (7) 18 Early harp (4)

20 Corn crop (5) 22 Contaminate (5) 23 Motors (4)