WEEKEND CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 When those who are healthy can be admitted to hospital (8,4) 8 Crazy circle unknown (5) 9 Chief writer to continue slowly and tediously (9) 11 Councillor one’s repeatedly followed during emergency (6) 12 Low character found on the score (4,4) 14 Place where POWS are kept cooler in the field (6,4) 15 What wild kid grows up to be (4) 18 Fruitful appointment (4) 19 Essential nature with depth having a moral basis (10) 21 Ida faint suffering during uprising (8) 23 A bud be developing smear (6) 25 Sort of romance eg by one involved in divination (9) 26 Nothing by empty space that’s egg-shaped (5) 27 Edgbaston gal redesigned case (9,3)
DOWN
1 One player taking in another player (9) 2 Going round Kentucky, pistol removed from military chaplain (3,5) 3 Kind to do office work (4) 4 No French settlement failing to discharge a debt (3-7) 5 Beat the unending spots (6) 6 Magnate to pull up Maureen first (5) 7 Very dark sweet sausage (5,7) 10 One is unsettled having this (2,5,5) 13 One who is easily frightened startled Felix going round yard (7-3) 16 A ringing sound followed William in Australian backwater (9) 17 Minute destructive weapon? (4,4) 20 Fearful of a strong attack (6) 22 Giant’s strolling part (5) 24 Three islands in Ireland, sounds like one in Scotland (4)