ACROSS
1 Wandering round a couple of
times to find Malaysian food (4-4)
5
Female cricketer gets a month in Tel Aviv
(6)
10 Royal house gives travellers 30
days (7)
11 Put on trial, justify
abandoning daughter (7)
12 African people
discover America (5)
13 Pests moving east to compound
for sheep... (9)
14 ...very large folds
could be affected in a single trice, experts caution initially
(12)
18 Plants from
S. Europe (Spain) tended by the old lady in Times Square
(12)
21 Bachelor sent
packing by woman in retort in Swiss dialect (9)
23 Eccentrics pulling
off fine pranks in the past (5)
24 Publication produced
by woman with talent, we’re told (7)
25 Tenor performing
opera’s surplus to requirements (2,5)
26 After a long time, is
male cross-dressing? (6)
27 Yes, one’s concocted
special excuses for not appearing in court (8)
DOWN
1 Heal old wound that’s in a
state? On the contrary (6)
2 Bushy tail of
opossum’s bagged by pair with snare – that’s heartless
(6)
3 German scientist slightly modified
plant oestrogen (9)
4 Was upset, hence not
excited by Kirkpatrick’s instrument of torture
(5-2-3-4)
6 Writer of comics among other
genres (5)
7 Young herring netted chiefly
in river in region of Concarneau (8)
8
Heir of Celtic chief tours Turkey and becomes follower of
Hindu and Buddhist teaching (8)
9 Group of fungi having
chromosome found in some diabetics, surprisingly (14)
15 Meat course not finished, ordered
wine (9)
16 Former accountant’s given tax
advice in the end to mine (8)
17 Following
Thatcher’s work, employee is a slave no longer
(8)
19 Knight from Geneva hiding away in
Perth (6)
20 Judge Jenny, as it were?
(6)
22 Develop a new use for old measures
(5)
