Across I—Does it make for a sticky wicket? (5) 4—Echo again in good condition. (7) B—Designate father to get back to the subject. (7) 9— Exculpate the French in the vehicle. (5) 10— Sour pastry? (4) 11— Sentimental Latin speaker has twitch. (8) 13— Plodding students somehow arrange to pass. (4) 14— Devotee about 50 makes sweet. (4) 16— Free bite — real! (8) 17— River in flood erodes banks. (4) 20— Cited a law. (5) 21— Cut off one as tardy as this. (7) 22— Altered pedal. (7) 23— Ships about 50ft long. (5)
Down 1— No examination in theory. (9, 4) 2— Come to the point right after recording. (5) 3— Stormy greeting? (4) 4— Fair share for deserter on charge. (6) 5— Thus I appear in the telegram as gregarious. (8) 6— Not touched by consumption, perhaps. (7) 7— Not beating about the bush, it has shocking potential. (6, 7) 12— Got to work in the theatre. (8) 13— It’s grand picking up bus by tree. (7) 15—Make light of match. (6) 18— Did this bowler get out with a duck? (5) 19— It has links for players, of course. (4) (Solution tomorrow) Yesterday’s solution Across: 3, Scrapbook; 8, Blue; 9, Carnation; 10, Sorely; 11. Sleep; 14, Meets; 15, Rose; 16, Evens; 18, Need; 20, Cheat; 21, Debar; 24, Hot air; 25, Relief map; 26, Alto; 27, Still life. Down: 1, Abasement; 2, Quartered; 4, Clay; 5, Annul; 6, Better; 7, Oboe; 9, Close; 11, Steer, 12, Pole vault; 13, Letterbox; 17, Scoop; 19, Denial; 22, Awful; 23, Rest; 24, Half.
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