| Across 6 Steak
named after a French statesman (13)
8 Asian country whose capital is Bandar Seri Begawan (6)
9 Tree which grows in muddy swamps (8)
10 A tip in horse racing which is a sure-fire winner (3)
11 Charles ---, English designer, he founded a School of Handicraft in
London's East End in 1888. (6)
12 Oriental wind (8)
14 City in Colorado, NW of Denver (7)
16 The conjunction of two gametes of similar size and structure (7)
20 Picturesque Lake District village where Wordsworth lived (8)
23 To pay no heed to (6)
24 A spot or pimple (US slang) (3)
25 Mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae (8)
26 A ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton (6)
27 People who are in their nineties (13)
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Down 1 General
who commanded the Carthaginian army in the Second Punic War (8)
2 Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad
flat muzzle (8)
3 City on the river Odet in Brittany (7)
4 Planet discovered in 1781 (6)
5 1976 film starring Sissy Spacek (6)
6 Winner of the 1992 Olympic 4000m individual pursuit gold medal (5,8)
7 Area of granite boulders south of Tennant Creek in Northern Territory,
Australia (6,7)
13 In Confucianism, the way to follow, the right path (3)
15 Obsolete Indian coin worth one fortieth of a rupee (3)
17 WW2 aircraft (8)
18 The gums (8)
19 Paul ---, French Post-Impressionist painter (7)
21 Malay skirt-like garment (6)
22 The lowest commissioned rank in the British Army before 1871 (6)
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