CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Import/export dealings offer poem containing lines on a street artist (8,5) 10 Record one caught making good sense (5) 11 Girl thrown at dire angle (9)

12 Two unknowns with cut-and-polish instrument (9)

13 Guy assumes energy is not expensive (5) 14 Game that provides conclusive enjoyment (7)

16 Turn tail (not north) – reassemble in name only (7)

18 It can stretch sail, etc, when laid out (7) 20 Leave, wearing a wedding ring, perhaps (7) 21 Made up over a spag bol, say (5)

23 I’m in the property department, doing assessments (9) 25 Avoid putting a beginner into epidemic (9) 26 Original tailor is going to use woven fabric (5) 27 Grass hopper identified as showing example of unsporting behaviour (3,3,7)

DOWN

2 Latin poet loses right to watch (5)

3 Eg alpine music at industrial site (4,5)

4 Urge list to be compiled with appetiser (3,4) 5 Too much rubbish is fustier (7)

6 More licence to offer is a thing of the past (5) 7 Car journey with learner was prelude to having talked gibberish (9)

8 English poet swaps names with church leader in late Middle Ages (9,4)

ROS SHERARD 9 Do these condiments make your hair turn grey? (6,3,4)

15 Passing rats in net, fighting like rats in a sack (9)

17 I cut a tram out – it was shocking! (9) 19 Gentle, but hard as nails where criminal’s end’s involved (7)

20 They say acting as one-to-one teacher is more shrewd (7)

22 An advance seen once more (5)

24 Yours is old in the play (5)