Crosswords Set by: Puck Saturday 1 October 2016 20.00 EDT Prize crossword No 27,004 Print | PDF version | Accessible version Set by: Puck Saturday 1 October 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 28 29 30 31 32 Across 8 Clean sheet after playing against City (8) 9 Fish in sea, side by side (6) 10 Hospital ring doctor in Iran about lozenges (6) 12 Bridges, perhaps, behind schedule crossing a river (8) 13 See 14 down 14 Tiny bit drunk (6) 16 Extensive opus is a composer's first output (8) 17 Film about composer's grave (7) 20 With this gym equipment, starts working out? (7) 23 Bloomer made by demure female (8) 24 Puck's mate, a horny beast (6) 26 See 14 down 27 Last rites performed by a third curate in short time (8) 28 Row about daughters' scam? (6) 31 Puerto Rican gang has former bodyguards to listen in (6) 32 Reporter recalled rubbish article paper finally published (8) Down 1 Cut top off gum tree (4) 2 Halt baseball team's rise (4) 3 Motherless cat's reason for visiting dentist? (6) 4 Wild sex, so heartlessly cruel this pair might have been rowing (7) 5 A friend keeps motherless cat with tip of tail cut off (8) 6 Native American penguin population starts increasing slowly in number (8,2) 7 Reservations to see film Red (8) 11 See 14 14, 11, 26, 25, 13, 21 Book Pam's meeting with Ed? (3,3,3,3,3,3) 15 Men stray? I'd suspect explosive outcomes from their goings-on (10) 18 Tune by drunk, having no weaknesses (8) 19 Display sort of cow, as seen in novel (8) 21 See 14 22 Three males in Gabon, skirting the border? On the contrary (7) 24 Weak batting partnership? (6) 25 See 14 29 Uninteresting fish? That's about right (4) 30 John Major's beginning to appear vaguely threatening (4)
