Guardian Cryptic #27817

2019-05-10

Solve on Guardian →

Across

8a

Sibyl follows bag painter (8)

flowerflowerflower
9a

Cool sort of record Henry and Tom cover (6)

10a

Ruth's mine and yours, at first (4)

flowerflowerflower
11a

Sally's in class, penning Latin (10)

12a

Clingy type left Mike, taken by current favourite (6)

14a

Oscar regularly pulls in money for luxury (8)

15a

For Dirk, pedant's out of line (7)

17a

What Victor will do, a bit charming (7)

flowerflowerflower
20a

Track plugged by Kelvin that is more unsettling (8)

22a

Norman's bird providing fake news (6)

flowerflowerflower
23a

Amazed to play Viola, line's forgotten in Cliff's place (6,4)

24a

Grant's a court favourite, according to hearsay (4)

flowerflowerflower
25a

One travelling late, a shade before Amber picked up yours truly (3-3)

flowerflowerflower
26a

Nancy's really with Carol, making a coiffure (8)

flowerflowerflower

Down

1d

One in dire straits could be Horace (8)

2d

Guy in spin (4)

flowerflowerflower
3d

Two lots of Mary Jane's brewing equipment (6)

flowerflowerflower
4d

Harry Potter taking drug a high point for Rowan (7)

flowerflowerflower
5d

Hit works about Jacob's relative with right vocabulary in these (8)

6d

The main youth supporting Frank in free time (4,6)

7d

Terry's very good fortune? Not half (6)

flowerflowerflower
13d

Bull where Jack's found round rushes (4,2,4)

16d

He should be in Nick's wild revel, one engaging cook (8)

18d

Mary drops a name introducing artist and player (8)

19d

Tommy's revealing little (7)

flowerflowerflower
21d

Guy in spin? That's correct (6)

flowerflowerflower
22d

Morgan, say, and Paddy dress down (6)

flowerflowerflower
24d

Chuck Norris finally punching Leo, for one (4)