CROSSWORD Chris Leyland No. 52
ACROSS
1 Submitted and sat for portrait (5) 4 Intensity may precede charge
(5)
9 Pin on aristocrat terrible delay
(15)
10 ‘Pull this’ - one as folds
t’parachutes? (7)
11 Part of play penned by 17-18c
author mostly unofficially (2,5) 12 It’s produced by leaders of
OPEC including Libya (3) 13 Not a soul except last one in
back yard at twelve (7)
15 Slip in sierra tumble... (7) 16 ...slip turning 2nd half of
corner, one’s drunk (7)
19 We hear little sister has go on
tank (7)
21 I say love! (3)
22 Old weapon made of pine
Bob? (7)
23 Catching little sun, sour hermit
(7)
25 Yonder star appears after oscillating and dodging (8,3,4)
26 Ay, she works in Middlesex
town (5)
27 Put back clock that’s been put
back? (5)
DOWN
1 Take some tomato mix or pesto
up for next month (7)
2 Shoot Southern sanctimonious
type (5)
3 Ruin of ancient city after leaders of Danaans’ equine stratagem (7)
4 Shrink treated Wild Ned (7) 5 Mart flops after flogging thicksoled shoes (9)
6 Trim shed housing song clubs
(7)
7 Bull shown by Greek character
in stall from Warsaw? (4,3,6) 8 Having stirred up odium, manic
con in solitary (13)
14 With what’s owed around November purchase engaging gee-gee or quad bike? (4,5) 17 Rookie on finding US
squaddies hard pulled out (7) 18 Turns back with right gale in
southeast getting up (7) 19 Actor regularly rejected where wedding’s held is stuff of soap? (4,3)
20 Not half envy what makes dog
beg? Quite (7)
24 Study hard including English to
be top (5)