ACROSS
1 Returning drunkard sees
several more (8)
5 Chap captures knight
with queen – that’s how Arab may move?
(6)
9 Worry oneself about a feature of
some bats (4-4)
10 Causes alarm and
anxiety on board (6)
12 Build sports
ground in abandoned encampment (5)
13 Good
man consumes small dinner perhaps – like some biscuits
(9)
14 Try comic line to start to soothe
raving road user (5-7)
18 Not easily wound
up, happening to lose one’s rag about politician sacking son
(4-8)
21 Some bad fielding leads to defeat
(9)
23 Island institute gets rid of
Academician (5)
24 Clergyman’s wife
dismisses first couple to show affection
(6)
25 After short trip, detective has
extremely communicable disease (8)
26
Noisily knocked back a delicious drink
(6)
27 The majority should be kept in the
warm – it stops bleeding (as American has it) (8)
DOWN
1 Insectivore that’s often
recognisable? Not entirely (6)
2 Most
strict, keeping one’s woman in order (6)
3
Craft shop’s closing and left a bit too untidy
(5-4)
4 With yours truly absent, teaches
class about mounting special electrical items
(12)
6 Necktie accepted by Hamish?
(5)
7 Spice sexual excitement up with
married man (8)
8 Determined to rule out
taking pills (8)
11 We had a celeb dancing
outside hotel, maybe right on the Strand?
(7,5)
15 Cut short street party that’s
getting noisier (9)
16 One cuts corners,
sloppily producing chemical used in dyeing
(8)
17 Satisfied by interpretation of
Eroica except the last bit, which is very fast
(8)
19 Refuse to take exam again around
start of semester (6)
20 Fresh money to
support soldiers (6)
22 Opera for La Scala
at heart? (5)
