Crosswords Set by: Paul Saturday 10 September 2016 20.00 EDT Prize crossword No 26,986 Print | PDF version | Accessible version Set by: Paul Saturday 10 September 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 Across 1 Cheers beginning in Pennsylvania, America saw British in retreat (7,2) 6 Land between mountains with northern adventurer (5) 9 Potential Mount Everest, primarily for adventurer (5) 10 Adventurer who packs a punch? (9) 11 Spooner's dance with 10, rational figure (4,6) 12 Note success after first from Cambridge (4) 14 In spirit, the stuff feeding culture for an adventurer (7) 15 Fizzy diet drinks cold, each a cold drink (4,3) 17 Possible source of wind resistance in jets (7) 19 Change round Lithuanian and Latvian capitals, as adventurer (7) 20 Travel adventurer (4) 22 Adventurer here, OK with vast ground (10) 25 A 20 needing no cab? (9) 26 Not moving yet (5) 27 Two prepare for impact (5) 28 Writer indeed struggling with books, financially needing others (9) Down 1 Very much cake, case of forty or fifty eaten up (2,3) 2 Sailor welcomes artillery and flag waving in battle (9) 3 Our cinema's about to screen a display of marine life (10) 4 Priest about right as adventurer (7) 5 Couple after Macedonian leader in Alexander, say, finding buried treasure in Italy? (7) 6 Sound way to walk in door (4) 7 Biblical character, one turning on the house of God (5) 8 Bedtime drinks for birds (9) 13 Spring chicken's top and stockings new, carefully selected (4-6) 14 Eatery, however briefly, left sink upside down (9) 16 Ingesting tail of pterodactyl, three taste a fossilised arthropod (9) 18 Normal to jettison sandwiches as adventurer (7) 19 Reportedly, European happy to provide dental appointment (5-2) 21 Belief in female setter, perhaps? (5) 23 Very much to say is set aside (5) 24 Pumped-up Lebanese port? (4)
