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Medium Cryptic

More advanced clues than the easy cryptic, but not as complex as the Lucifer crossword. This example appeals to a wide range of readers and is a very popular standard of puzzle.

ACROSS

1 Training fixed with a foreigner's money (6)
4 Love tip-off in a fellow's choice of candidate (8)
10 Smash it in hole roughly -- it's from the Stone Age (9)
11 Drowsy nodding can be seen round this meeting of clerics (5)
12 English politician in race to offer bait! (5)
13 Is entering subtle differences causing irritations? (9)
14 Imaginary place of limitless credit? (5-5,4)
18 Unpretentious formula for signing off? (5,9)
20 I'll bring a suit for simple argument (9)
22 First layer of domestic cuts producing a chill (5)
24 It's due round side of building (5)
25 This play has moral made in an unusual form (9)
26 Isn't a run on a railway conducive to health? (8)
27 Reaches a conclusion in fashionable pelts,it's said (6)

DOWN
1 Confined,I join number inside full of sorrow (8)
2 Lay siege,giving direction to regiment (5)
3 Fool sitting on tree,rambling? Right,he's a chirpy chap! (9)
5 A comedown for imperialists brought to book (7,3,4)
6 Spaghetti? Put juice over,thank you! (5)
7 Court's finding for harmless character (9)
8 Turning brown it's bad for a sun-worshipper (6)
9 There's coast-to-coast coverage of my sporting achievement (7,7)
15 Instrument on it repaired an abuse (9)
16 Out of line,he did wrong,having to stay concealed (3,6)
17 You'll be told I note girl -- through this? (8)
19 More than one ghost frightens a horse (6)
21 Chessman,it's said,is black,naturally! (5)
23 Picture that is covering glossy publication (5)

SOLUTION:
ACROSS: 1 Peseta, 4 Adoption, 10 Neolithic, 11 Synod, 12 Tempt, 13 Nuisances, 14 Never-never land, 18 Yours Sincerely, 20 Plaintiff, 22 Icing, 24 Owing, 25 Melodrama, 26 Sanitary, 27 Infers
DOWN: 1 Penitent, 2 Storm, 3 Twitterer, 5 Decline and fall, 6 Pasta, 7 Innocence, 8 Nudist, 9 Channel swimmer, 15 Violation, 16 Lie hidden, 17 Eyeglass, 19 Spooks, 21 Night, 23 Image

 

 

 

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