The Scotsman

DOUBLE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC

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CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

3. Commercial enterprise can be an escapade (9)

8. Uncommon artist and engineer (4)

9. Be a spokesman concerning a gift (9)

10. Terribly odd jewel of a car (6)

11. People getting American bills of fare (5)

14. A little bit of discretion (5)

15. Style and vigour shown in lane-changing (4)

16. Where you might cook with terrible anger (5)

18. Does rewrite some poetry (4)

20. Musicians without the aid of safety precaution­s (5)

21. She's in France (5) 24. A number in the vessel are powerful (6)

25. Collecting stamps like a man at a place in Cambridges­hire (9)

26. Hate to run a preliminar­y race (4)

27. Ladykiller? (9)

Down

1. Routine set up without a girl learning (9)

2. Made rents change for shopkeeper­s (9)

4. Consider the river at Maidenhead (4)

5. Strange-sounding nest (5)

6. Is suet made out of paper? (6)

7. Opening property payment (4)

9. Allude to an unnoticeab­le turnaround (5)

11. After a short time the marshal gets cash (5)

12. And the Queen in a toboggan is defamed (9)

13. Establish a building (9)

17. Messenger seen during the maiden voyage (5)

19. Deals I arranged having gone by boat (6)

22. React badly, but provide what is needed (5)

23. You might be old (4)

24. And drink up about a litre (4)

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