Crosswords Set by: Picaroon Saturday 2 July 2016 20.00 EDT Prize crossword No 26,926 Print | PDF version | Accessible version Set by: Picaroon Saturday 2 July 2016 20.00 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email View more sharing options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Google+ Share on WhatsApp Share on Messenger Close 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Across 1 Jilted lover writes online story for financial benefit (7,7) 9 Seeks further profit from check clothing (9) 10 Lag behind army corps, gathering information for the Americans (5) 11 Scales part of extremely stony, black, bare hill (5) 12 Assistant wrapping small hands round beer and oversexed American? (9) 13 Fair game to pocket diamonds, around 7 or 8? (8) 14 Cut clothing for girl, one wild child (6) 17 Haulier short of right fare down under (6) 19 This pace is wrong for take-off (8) 22 Leader from English paper: wonderful, penetrating feature (9) 24 Love getting called a hairy beast (5) 25 Clip top from sargasso weed (5) 26 Switch contains electrical current conductor (9) 27 Green area's politicians admitted to loathing bill by Tory PM (9,5) Down 1 Leave camp's position with terribly imprecise scout (14) 2 Tending to follow Putin's lead, possibly bent (7) 3 Little work requiring 15 days and lots of character? (9) 4 Part of city street crossed by European on main track (4,4) 5 Station guards left large building (6) 6 Something in perfume has men and gentleman spinning (5) 7 Turning in century, man in game's making a score (7) 8 Lenin, with sigh, resolved to tour steppe, unpretentiously (2,5,7) 15 Doctor's promise to squeeze writer's back (9) 16 Lady's boring design, flipping tasteless white stuff (8) 18 It's fabulous being rich, a poor compiler's gathered (7) 20 Target for red vehicle skirting unknown, hot area (7) 21 Knocks seaman over on junk (3-3) 23 Scoffed at University Blue (3,2)
