The Scottish Mail on Sunday

SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES

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ACROSS 1 Do this to get a binder, like a daft person (14) 9 Makes off with sailor’s pamphlets (9) 10 Indian dish? Back it goes to the laboratory (5) 11 Informatio­n about line of Scottish valley (4) 12 Cosy appeal giving way to something ultimately destructiv­e (10) 14 Soak gets right into place of vice next to church (6) 15 Magnificen­t back street in Paris shows lofty nature (8) 17 Good, corpulent editor is settled (8) 19 Crazy ethic formulated before start of century (6) 22 Cashiers certain to get into Sartre translatio­n (10) 23 Look intently to see noble (4) 25 Make new arrangemen­t about dance (5) 26 Character is no sinister individual (1,5,3) 27 Be very childish wrecking green cars (6,8) DOWN 1 Drawn out tale, like Lassie perhaps (6,3,5) 2 Australia before becoming distant (7) 3 Race to grab gold is wrong legally (4) 4 Price changes, note, for cooking instructio­ns (6) 5 Reuters struggling to accept cold, quiet treatment (4,4) 6 Upsets as I am getting figures from the bank (10) 7 See pill moulded into an oval shape (7) 8 Dove I enchanted with wind instrument­s, and things to entertain viewers (5,9) 13 Causing rig to be damaged? It could finish off cakes (5,5) 16 Bring up part of hospital towards the back (8) 18 Concerned with Josephine having yen to give delight (7) 20 Having three leaves tree is cut with sword (7) 21 Boring diamonds in solid carbon dioxide (3,3) 24 Far-easterner has obligation we hear (4)

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