CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 View animal going back into circus enclosures (3,5)

9 Just holding gym class in full view (6)

10 Spooner’s clue knows emperor’s

apparel? (3,7)

11 Likes lodgings (4)

12 Close to accepting current operation’s

diagnostic technique (6)

14 Testing young tree that’s outside farm,

but not far (8)

15 Showy, like a long-nosed fish? (6)

17 Noted cosmonaut, 55, embracing irrational leader of NASA wearing glasses? (6)

20 Hoists an irregular floor (8)

22 Quiche fluff repulsed Mr. Poilievre (6)

23 When I say the word, run away from

circus performer (4)

24 Haggling, Gibran does some

multiplying? (10)

26 Reversed volcanic flow on legendary

island (6)

27 Polish tenants better than all the rest?

Tell the truth (2,6) DOWN 1 Comprehensive school’s leader showing

emotion (8)

2 A health agency in Atlanta, currently

flexible? (4)

3 Large quantity eaten by some

Shakespearean character (6)

4 So Mrs. French follows with Italian

soup (8)

5 Wound cleaner fed snake (3-2-5)

6 Standard number from the bottom

wine container (6)

8 Is initially mad after school break (6)

13 A head boy is attached to friend in

my book (10)

16 Spooner’s been shown part of a

skeleton (8)

18 Poetry captivates one Italian city

dweller (8)

19 Innocent new reporter embraces her (6)

21 Last of chefs mostly still around a food

processor? (6)

22 Great, unending silence near empty

hallway (6)

25 Baseball team partly use brawniness (4)