Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


12 June



Across

Terribly evil! (4)
Organising thousand charitable gifts (4-4)
Girl's first with simply tailored tunic (7)
10 In the forest wee things chirp (5)
11 Employed in nightclub as solo singer (5)
12 Oscar's wild for clues like this (6)
14 Child coming back to embrace crazy wanderers (6)
16 Female was unwell and didn't succeed (6)
19 Beast about ninety in American wagon (6)
21 Short acknowledgement outside university for scoundrel (5)
24 Girl seen in Milan, Italy? (5)
25 Wrong grid one disregarded (7)
26 Fish certainly from the right island (8)
27 Hard wood needed for rudder (4)

Down

Wanderer in Virgina and Georgia - secret agent (8)
Psalm about lights (5)
Please ask for umpire's decision (6)
Put off in high-altitude terrain (5)
Bit of kitchen equipment just being still at regular intervals (7)
Where badger may be failing test (4)
Old man cracking a nut (6)
13 Mend a dud mobile that wasn't there originally (8)
15 Making fast call after beastly sound (7)
17 Garments from the centre of Belarus for Poles (6)
18 Rubies, if not set properly, can result in injury (6)
20 The case presented by Socrates? (5)
22 Wolf in ravine (5)
23 Sparkling wine - central feature of a Majorca vacation (4)