THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1047
An Ettinger Croco ebony key case and two Connell Guides will be given to the senderr of the first correct solution to the crossword and the clue of the week opened on Monday 27 March.h. Send it to: The Week Crossword 1047, 2nd floor, 32 Queensway, London W2 3RX, or email the answers swers to crossword@theweek.co.uk. Set by Tim Moorey (www.timmoorey.info)
ACROSS
1 Letters carried by KLM? Yes and No (8) 5 Game played in small car? (6) 10 Send back for clock (5) 11 Humiliation in a cellar (9) 12 Talk endlessly about right look for US city (9)
13 Meal for Muslims provided with salt (5)
14 Group rarely worried so about going out (6) 15 Venerable English clown (7) 18 Safety features broadcast a great deal (3,4)
20 Left and right embraced father Edward (6)
22 Mixed with one in outlying parts of Long Island (5)
24 Missile trap in navy training school? (9)
25 More than one BA guard flying on a short trial (9)
26 Foreigner who’s returned in a flash (5)
27 Sample pinch of salt in potato (6)
28 Escape exam with maximum haste (8)
DOWN
1 Room at the top overlooking a historic Greek region (6)
2 Music interrupting Frenchman and a severe French mistress (9)
3 PM separating two ladies in one quarter (5,3,3,4)
4 Club creates positions in Covent Garden (7)
6 Give spinner more bowling? It’s blooming late! (7,8) 7 Appropriation of daily paper (5) 8 Chippies knocked out seat around lake (8)
9 Polish hero, one supporting the Principality (6) 16 Please cut out risk (9) 17 No Parking in space with feeble illumination (8)
19 Staid boyfriend from the Home Counties (6) 20 Reading’s country girl (7) 21 Rob after time is a believer (6) 23 Guy’s providing leather bags from US (5)