WEEKEND CROSSWORD SINCE 1846

ACROSS

1 Route cab’s travelled to reach inferior place where legal judgements are made (4-5) 6 Repasts unknown in Dallas area (5) 9 Loves to include book moulding (5) 10 Placing apart and losing it, a disaster (9) 11 Explaining wrongly cover during exceptional springtime (15) 13 One’s entering procession in state of great happiness (8) 14 Interfere with award announced (6) 16 Band of warriors caught, say, going round Head Office (6) 18 A fob moved in turn in engine (8) 21 Fiendish peepholes hitman refined (15) 23 Begin with boot first, first thing to do on motorcycle (4-5) 25 Quite free of restrictions and qualifications (5) 26 Pronounced similarity (5) 27 Simple brew (6,3)

DOWN

1 Flower’s growth about end of April (5) 2 Godparents’ joint patronage (11) 3 Covered tooth or monarch’s head (7) 4 Group of students have lines on cosmos (8) 5 Too much trustee gave to mate (6) 6 Bar for swingers (7) 7 Twelve of the Romans (1,1,1) 8 Wise – but also immature choice of colour? (4,5) 12 At home it is not the same being uninterested (11) 13 Machine used by leading runner? (9) 15 First two questioning priest about one making witty remarks (8) 17 Reprint acceptable in another series (7) 19 Angular fragments of rock or ice crab stumbled round (7) 20 Valley, not river dance (6) 22 Mercenary, one going to New Jersey in North America (5) 24 During the disco you were shy (3)