Two-In-One
No 6,239
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
3 Pact made by great men round the East (9)
8 It’s useful for one who carries off the cups (4)
9 See 9 Down
10 Tricky description of popular tune (6)
11 Give some backbone to a couple (5)
14 In the main this provides luxury accommodation (5)
15 Sound return from juvenile choristers (4)
16 Rents will produce indications of sadness (5)
18 Dispatch to southern terminus (4)
20 No clear profit returned by this joint (5)
21 Quantities of water essential for fish! (5)
24 Puts the onus on Mabel’s disorder (6)
25 Anticipate a change in store in the autumn (9)
26 Sounds like part of the rosary for an ancient monk (4)
27 Thrashed the revolutionary at the back of the field (9)
DOWN
1 Catalogue of farm animals? (9)
2 Sealing the hatches and growing fat (9)
4 Hoary elegist, we hear (4)
5 Don’t stay without (5)
6 Jeopardise fellows with the winning card (6)
7 Christmas book has the middle missing (4)
9 & 9Ac. Given by the judge who is a man of few words? (5,9)
11 The effrontery to make money (5)
12 Savings on expenditure, so income must be revised after the end of June (9)
13 Golfers who bring the milk? (9)
17 As yet, inactive (5)
19 Tell somebody the way without deviation (6)
22 Used for turning definite articles in French and English (5)
23 European staff (4)
24 Sad insect loses its bottle (4)
SIMPLE CLUES ACROSS
3 Most intelligent (9)
8 Fleet (4)
9 Guardian (9)
10 Sailing-ship (6)
11 Mass of vapour (5)
14 Rests on (5)
15 A fruit (4)
16 Young eel (5)
18 Cravats (4)
20 Curses (5)
21 Unclean (5)
24 Annals (6)
25 Clothier (9)
26 Perceived (4)
27 Welfare (9)
DOWN
1 Powerlessness (9)
2 Thought too much of (9)
4 Entice (4)
5 Essential (5)
6 Reimburse (6)
7 Cease (4)
9 Money-bag (5)
11 Brood of game birds (5)
12 Warship (9)
13 Head of state (9)
17 Pirate (5)
19 Wicked (6)
22 Heading (5)
23 Dumb (4)
24 Curb (4)