Crosswords Set by: Paul Saturday 22 October 2016 20.00 EDT Prize crossword No 27,022 Print | PDF version | Accessible version Set by: Paul Saturday 22 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 Across 1 Boarder's entrance examination's ending in silence, physicist heard (9) 6 Wine — how's it going down the Champs Elysées? No comment! (4) 8 He wrote something spicy about Mikado's principal (Gilbert & Sullivan) (8) 9 Subtlety is absent in pest (6) 10 Political bloc spilling claret (6) 11, 25 Tom, try Beaujolais nouveau, reason for party celebration? (8,8) 12 Barolo's capital, just brilliant! (6) 15 Ecstasy and sin with vino in motion picture (8) 16 Cunning popular in force as authoritarian (8) 19 Termite's heading beyond place for an insect (6) 21 One wine knocked back, then another oddly? That's the reality! (3,1,4) 22 See 3 24 See 26 25 See 11 26, 24 Instrument lout stuffed with cheese, filling hollow one (4,6) 27 No revolution in US state is darkly active (9) Down 1 Being worshipped around Utrecht primarily, a cheese (5) 2 Label the Guardian revolutionary (4,3) 3, 22 across Cheese round new table for garage worker (5,6) 4 Calm, outstanding union leader, equally wise (7) 5 Man is up for scrofula (5,4) 6 Drink with endless joy, a wine (7) 7 Those charged in Richmond, say, for holidays (9) 13 Possible Sunday lunch, as whisky served up in mug (5,4) 14 Bird climbing a mountain to circle a tropical tree (5,4) 17 Drink wine that's fragrant (3,4) 18 Greatly revered in epic, I met Othello on the rise (7) 20 Upset feeling, as series about King Arthur ends (7) 22 Small and tasteful, insect-flavoured gravy, might you say? (5) 23 Praise old airline to the sky (5)
