THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1025

An Ettinger travel pass holder and two Connell Guides will be given to the sender of the first correct solution to the crossword and the clue of the week opened on Monday 17 October. Send it to: The Week Crossword 1025, 2nd floor, 32 Queensway, London W2 3RX, or email the answers to crossword@theweek.co.uk.

ACROSS

1 Not how this minister should be welcomed in speech! (4,6) 6 Meat charts returned (4) 9 Leg placed on centre of floor in dance (5)

10 Windy apartment university made available temporarily (9)

12 What operation with needle can give is a pain in the side (7,6)

14 Doctor wise to take two seconds in Olympic sport (8) 15 Right fools returning plastered (6) 17 One substituted for compound used in dye (6)

19 African airline flying over Belgium (8)

21 Personal cleaning service? Boots could profit from it (4,3,6)

24 Men in food organised? Agreed (2,3,4)

25 South African port needing capital of the city (5)

26 Garden feature stood out in leaves (4)

27 Back not working and stopped again (10)

DOWN

1 Dutch painter left out of passages (4)

2 Face up to elder perhaps in a place not to be stuck (3,4)

3 Forecast operating cost needs revision (13)

4 Get fashionable hairstyle for break (8) 5 Some dubious language (5) 7 Quick! Name a town in northern England (7)

8 Striker has tip for a winning position (5,5)

11 Theme put out in works incorporating latest info (2,2,3,6)

13 A day with religious groups making confessions (10)

16 Detective more upset about daughter in a mess (8) 18 Fatty dope is a jerk (7) 20 Occupy fashionable side of Hampstead? Rather! (7) 22 Urge to go by car (5) 23 Girl turned up in restaurant after getting bottom pinched! (4)