The Weekly cryptic

No 29,023

Across

1 A few circling wagon have initially found their

target (6,4)

6 Eminent school in street slightly tainted (4)

9 Wise guys’ initial gathering around chimney

(10)

10 Very large piece of meat saved to take

back (4)

12 Change in personal relations suggesting

trap? (4,8)

15 Does battle losing head and part of a rifle (9) 17 Call round for the one with the sticks (5)

18 For a sportsperson it would have been more

hazardous to have run one at the start (5)

19 Reds fan broadcast report on 1-0 reverse (9) 20 Welcome back occasional elegant adult

learner to be graded (12)

24 Some paper, off-white, with no heading (4) 25 It’s critical stir-crazy daughter is kept in (10) 26 Support opera’s return (4)

27 Collapsed on tenth lap in this challenge (10)

Down

1 Small edge goes to fielder (4)

2 Keep going round for a light lunch? (4)

3 Hurry up selected pupils to start working

regularly (4,2,6)

4 Turner’s affair, heading off to Spain (5)

5 Shabby way of working not right to challenge

(4-5)

7 Innate bias to be reviewed, when convicted

so? (2,8)

8 Rash and blot spread into eyes so half-closed

(3-7)

11 As eldest child, male, I severely criticise Dad

(4,8)

13 An element of pressure over revised shop

hours (10) 14 Commit to flames popular heretic for

speaking out – consumed! (10)

16 Let balance dip into red, about to take

advantage of charity (4,5)

21 Back to front, managed to enter expensive

bar (5)

22 That is going to time, visiting sick (4)

23 Macs grouped together and left in

lavatory (4)