Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


28 September



Across

Defender returned (4)
Angered lover, we hear, displaying weapon (8)
Trade vehicles (7)
10 Kick out and start to paddle in river and lake (5)
11 Bay, for example, some authors entered (5)
12 Don't go out with marine (6)
14 No time for secrets when forced to take a break (6)
16 Paint in schoolbook? (6)
19 Film company boss with lion's heart (6)
21 Yale, perhaps, gets English philosopher (5)
24 Israeli city helping Arabs in fits and starts (5)
25 Study winner or missing prisoner (7)
26 With long novel one's late to bed (5,3)
27 Place for the infernal characters from Othello (4)

Down

Schubert composition for sellers of meat (8)
Rocker, for example, is to be in charge of meeting (5)
Disc that may be broken (6)
Old engine-driver, second to join crew (5)
Initiation that's suitable is in British Museum (7)
Barrier beginning to worry everyone (4)
Sort of feast including right dessert (6)
13 Poor relation from China, perhaps (8)
15 Sarcastic extract from a newspaper? (7)
17 Be less strict about time before Easter (6)
18 Farah's lower in capital (6)
20 Draw up a plan for conscription (5)
22 Rebuke such ideas — but not all (5)
23 Some bathing suits are flimsy (4)