Weekend Crossword - The Scotsman

This week’s puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Coming down, step onto platform (7-5)

8 Should expression of disgust be found in Old Testament? (5)

9 Learning about force increasing (9)

11 Blockhead takes back no meat (6)

12 Feud alien had during stormy Advent (8)

14 Rustics put rugby post in game-birds’ enclosure (10)

15 Not that ancient historian hides it (4)

18 Fun for early riser (4)

19 Grown-up removed a tree corrupted by base elements (10)

21 Man is at a different island (8)

23 It is used by gardeners when it is drier about mid-April (6)

25 Direction which reportedly is to town in Cheshire (9)

26 Woven silk seats are meant to be (5)

27 Present in middle of night in part is overwhelming (7,5)

DOWN

1 I struggled with lethargy to produce astronomical distance (5-4)

2 Crazy place where hard-headed people may be found? (8)

3 Day in Rome that is incomplete (4)

4 Guiding principle that’s the most valuable method of calculating (6,4)

5 Harangue from individual caught in traffic (6)

6 Sinfulness of pig we hear (5)

7 Commanding officers short time accepting work with Latin translation of worldwide scope (12)

10 Hypothetical barrier under roof can be seen through (5,7)

13 Within mathematical operation as well (2,8)

16 I left senior restaurant worker at top of stream (9)

17 Repeated that salesman is overdrawn (8)

20 Nut, he was removing many first (6)

22 Temptress’s warning? (5)

24 Cream-bun uses no end of pastry (4)

Friday’s solution

Across: 1 Femoral, 5 Boredom, 9 Leghorn, 10 Lacquer, 11 Better off, 12 Rally, 13 Genus, 15 Trombones, 16 Desiccant, 18 Deter, 21 Sails, 22 Sweetmeat, 24 Inferno, 26 Logroll, 27 Sherbet, 28 Entered.

Down: 1 Filibeg, 2 Megaton, 3 Rhone, 4 London transport, 5 Bolt from the blue, 6 Roc, 7 Drumlin, 8 Martyrs, 12 Robed, 14 Sects, 16 Dismiss, 17 Skiffle, 19 The poor, 20 Rattled, 23 Tight, 25 Rub.

Last week’s solution

Across: 1 Hussar, 4 Assorted, 9 Groggy, 10 Screwtop, 12 Silver lining, 15 Repossess, 17 Greta, 18 Earth, 19 Worktable, 20 Rolling-stock, 24 Operatic, 25 Gandhi, 26 Rayleigh, 27 Fondle.

Down: 1 High street, 2 Spoilsport, 3 Aggie, 5 Second string, 6 Overnight, 7 Tote, 8 Dupe, 11 Sleepwalking, 13 Red-blooded, 14 Paperknife, 16 Schoolage, 21 Shako, 22 Moor, 23 Deny.