CRYPTIC CLUES

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC - ACROSS: 1 Shorts 5 Mask 9 Ruled 10 Distort 11 Embroil 12 Erect 13 Stood 15 Grebe 20 Excel 22 Soprano 24 Pickaxe 25 Leash 26 Were 27 Meteor DOWN: 2 Halibut 3 Radio 4 Saddle 5 Masseur 6 Shore 7 Ariel 8 State 14 On leave 16 Bravado 17 Leaps 18 Esteem 19 Mocha 21 Cycle 23 Pilot QUICK - ACROSS: 1 Propel 5 Urge 9 Cocoa 10 Macabre 11 Retrain 12 Use up 13 Baton 15 Chips 20 Taste 22 Obscene 24 Frigate 25 U-turn 26 Feat

27 Nodule DOWN: 2 Ricotta 3 Plaza 4 Lament 5 Uncouth 6 Gable 7 Scarf

8 Tempo 14 Overact 16 Prequel 17 Stuff 18 Move in 19 Henna 21 Spite 23 Squid

ACROSS

1 With energy, salesman returns for season (6) 4 Take in sailor’s sphere (6)

9 Modern French seen after art? (7)

10 Nothing agreeable put aside (2,3)

11 Usual practice in hospital – a small part (5) 12 Foes see mine explode (7)

13 Very little son isn’t able to (5)

15 Rubbish left in large receptacle, ultimately (5) 20 Shocks coming from Sumatra (7)

22 Clear air thereabout (5)

24 Goods to make your vehicle move (5) 25 Assembles church service set in retreating ocean (7) 26 Grandly decree no raid, perhaps (6) 27 Remained prim, we hear (6)

DOWN

1 Cloak appearing somewhat cheap on choirboy (6) 2 Weight of fruit, say (5)

3 Always a heavyweight football club (7) 5 Smashed and completely penniless! (5) 6 Giving your views on love and longing (7) 7 Animal eating last of your white meat (6)

8 Prove wrong backing this root (5)

14 Burnt out through having worked as a domestic? (7) 16 At Nice dancing around ten? That’s imprecise (7) 17 Cuts back on firm plaster (6)

18 Mali’s new religion (5)

19 As deer struggling, rubbed out (6)

21 I wander up to New Zealander (5)

23 Too quick putting fodder round street (5)