Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


4 March



Across

1Trees discovered in the Spanish manuscript (4)
3A break for the kids when actors have to work? (8)
9They pinch children (7)
10It doesn't matter if it's dis or dat duck? (5)
11Fish that may be amber (5)
12Trial - or trade (6)
14Asleep, but prepared to slip away (6)
16Rub away a bread roll (6)
19Endless oriental holiday in spring (6)
21Feed the furnace in this town (5)
24Anaesthetic used in some therapy (5)
25King surrounded by menservants or knaves (7)
26Discover the absence of our island state (8)
27Post that once provided personal protection (4)

Down

1One blend - mixture given title? (8)
2Some could help a man climbing a tree (5)
4More off for instruction? (6)
5Surrender return on investment (5)
6U.S. state - or Asian one! (7)
7Peer almost ahead of time (4)
8Some other message for Olympian messenger (6)
13Backing for last couple of actors in show (8)
15Braves chase pa all over (7)
17Ribs to order in a restaurant (6)
18Herdsman finding river in port (6)
20Trunk for the end of August or thereabouts (5)
22A reporter beginning to turn up for music drama (5)
23A number of sheets - about a thousand? (4)