CROSSWORD

Jeremy Mutch No. 1,338

ACROSS

1 Love to stay - such colour! (5) 4 Gets in for free - that’s encouraging (9) 9 Meeting and understanding (9) 10 A single oil blended to make garlic sauce (5) 11 Police informers are moaning types (5) 12 Toast, bed and drink (7,2) 13 Stomach does this after chef’s first pudding (7) 15 Late to incorporate study that’s going nowhere (4,3) 17 Teams needing the Spanish numbers regularly (7) 19 Take the chair before team (7) 21 Stop operating, being stuffy and depressed (5,4) 23 Beatles’ last bad track (5) 24 Picture young lad hides at home? (3-2) 25 Chances I’m confused about this branch of physics (9) 26 Finish university - managed with church’s ability to survive (9) 27 Dance that’s a bit dotty! (5)

DOWN

1 No cigar is designed to be naturally produced (7) 2 A break from lurid teen novel (9) 3 Pots for producers of beer (not British) (5) 4 Free beers if given plastic disc (7) 5 Able to see no “L” in insulted (7) 6 Spain v Australia? Quietly speak and disappear (9) 7 Presses son to support club (5) 8 Fascinated, but had a moan about parking (7) 14 Apiarist’s mostly enthusiastic, having pager for cover (9) 16 Oriel and adit rebuilt for leader (9) 17 Person who never finishes a sentence (7) 18 Figure often seen out in winter? (7) 19 Name adopted by a cheap new style (7) 20 A bit of hauteur, as I annexed a large area of land (7) 22 Had made king, but lacked credit (5) 23 The sort of chap to swindle coppers? (5)