Weekend crossword - The Scotsman 14/01/2012

Across

1 Be accepting little Louise’s shirt (6)

4 Most important officers leading the band (3-5)

9 Story about abstainer is just gossip (6)

10 Despite inordinate delay, set out in a calm manner (8)

12 Money one deserves to have? (6,6)

15 Question second person’s welfare (3,3,3)

17 Material of some satiny long johns (5)

18 Filled one’s pockets that had been reinforced (5)

19 City where foxes and tigers can be found at home (9)

20 Usual one in France first who is inexperienced (12)

24 Hurried, say, along a road to refuge (8)

25 He left sleigher transporting fish (6)

26 Dealing with generously? (8)

27 Bird wept it upset (6)

Down

1 More than 50 per cent, but not quqite the best bit (6,4)

2 What children are always doing to their clothes (10)

3 Only about five find the answer (5)

5 Too arcefu with ldmaaged utocaue and visor (12)

6 Dandy demon removed from fashionable elite (4,5)

7 Said to draw attention to a skirt’s 23 down (4)

8 Bean sauce article (4)

11 Two-wheeler’s lengty, it transmits motion (7,5)

13 Greatest ever depression, this depth has never been reached before (3-4-3)

14 Get in with diner chopping up part of the mixture (10)

16 Mistakenly understand strike leader leaves unwanted (9)

21 Short part of lighter section (5)

22 Little bit that’s not quite like snow (4)

23 Partly excited getting to the boundary (4)

Friday’s solution

Across: 8 Baseball, 9 Unison, 10 Defile, 11 Collapse, 12 Earn, 13 Near the sea, 15 Appears, 17 Serpent, 20 Broadsword, 22 Gout, 24 Saturate, 26 Egoist, 27 Cement, 28 Ryebread.

Down: 1 Galena, 2 Defiance, 3 Babe in arms, 4 Clachan, 5 Duel, 6 Mirage, 7 Holstein, 14 Tweedledee, 16 Portaged, 18 Pegboard, 19 Dogears, 21 Amulet, 23 Unseat, 25 Anti.

Last week’s solution

Across: 1 Substituting, 8 Rifle, 9 Goldminer, 11 Tetchy, 12 Artistic, 14 Repainting, 15 Swap, 18 Bond, 19 Silly-point, 21 Oxbridge, 23 Pen-pal, 25 Kitchener, 26 Caret, 27 Woolly jumper.

Down: 1 Safety-pin, 2 Blenheim, 3 Toga, 4 Tolerantly, 5 Tomtit, 6 Nonet, 7 Writer’s block, 10 recapitulate, 13 Stringency, 16 Whisperer, 17 Speed-cop, 20 Withal, 22 Buteo, 24 Frau.