Crosswords Set by: Vulcan Sun 19 Apr 2020 19.00 EDT Cryptic crossword No 28,112 Print | PDF version | Accessible version Set by: Vulcan Sun 19 Apr 2020 19.00 EDT Download the Guardian app for a better puzzles experience Download the Guardian app for a better puzzles experience Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 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 One may go up in a few ticks (4,4) 5 Alluring, one's castle (6) 9 Plain, nothing to excite cockney (2-6) 10 Sort of chest that may be scraped (6) 12 Order thesaurus in online form? (5) 13 Relatives reform, being adaptable (9) 14 British legislating blasted for its bad language (12) 18 Staying in bed, say, a great honour for a body (5,2,5) 21 The Commonwealth: it could hardly be more distant from Britain (9) 23 Refuse left by dyke builder (5) 24 Giving a signal to be lining up for hearing (6) 25 Officer rank needed to win a seat? (8) 26 Getting to the end of this exhausts one's patience (6) 27 Flag when monarch's aboard ship (8) Down 1 Sensitive to pain in small boat (6) 2 Almost making a mess of cake (6) 3 Looking offended, finding bit of toenail in small fish (9) 4 Man forcefully expelling one with ill will (12) 6 Some small Amazonian animal (5) 7 Alarming to be treated as almost irrelevant (8) 8 Served in the army? Not one joined (8) 11 Dancing, a girl hadn't to lose all momentum (5,2,1,4) 15 Italian speaking in a whisper (5,4) 16 Respectably neat, is one less likely to be infected? (5-3) 17 Teacher locked up, being wasted (8) 19 Assert a company must employ female (6) 20 One taking piano course? (6) 22 What storms do, circling northern mountains (5)
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