Sunday Times E-Edition

Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

8 Note written about a surplus (9)

10 Freebooter losing head, furious (5)

11 Things wrong with cast: error in group of players (6, 9)

12 Underwear in record time! (7) 13 Superficial swine passing round room (7)

15 Giant ear can flap in the winds (7, 8)

19 On being consumed by deluge, flattened (7)

22 Giant back in pig, returned (7)

24 Unremarkable location of white lines? (6-2-3-4)

26 Obscene amount before tax deducted (5)

27 Soldier on manoeuvres ever trailing as such (9)

DOWN

1 Teacher I stood up, bit of a looker? (4)

2 Indication in slang isn’t taken the wrong way (6)

3 Demon not proving fiendish in North American city (8)

4 Bloomer feeding you to ferocious animals (6)

5 I’m a twerp to rectify distortion of science-fiction (4, 4)

6 Crayon made from petals? (6)

7 Giant rolling up a stone (4)

9 Sailor in river, airmen flying over (7)

12 Crook in workforce? (5)

14 Eye ticker (5)

16 Hasty touch coming round ends in unfortunate goal (8)

17 Binder with uglier tab cut off (8)

18 Bitter about a rocker’s rival being fashionable (1, 2, 4)

20 Strange issue likely (4-2)

21 Hanging head in disgrace, unknown have-nots turned up (6)

23 German songs governor listened to? (6)

24 Wise guys, most are genuinely ignorant, first of all (4)

25 Act the same either way (4)

Puzzles

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