Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 04/05/2012 - News - Scotsman.com Published on Friday 4 May 2012 01:25 Friday's puzzle... 1 I meet cad planning to drastically reduce numbers (8) 5 Chimp a late consumer of herbivorous animal (6) 10 Judge rarebit recipe (7) 11 Mitford scion looked very sweet (7) 12 Salutation given to duck on ship (5) 13 Rise and rise again from hospital procedures (9) 14 Stop studying French, for example, and forget it (4,3,7) 17 Fraud before trial is likely to result in struggle for inheritance (10,4) 21 Work on river animal that hasn't got thumbs like these (9) 23 Powerful predator decapitated dog (5) 24 Title abandons it after this plant (7) 25 Information initially correct in modest power to convince (7) 26 Accountant's in with zero finally in gambling venue (6) 27 Declined to walk in secondhand vehicles (4,4) 1 Tears shed at departures (6) 2 Tradesman produces apple dish, while ... 3 ... dog's making mess of meat dish (6,3) 4 Goes to gambling boards and gets even (5,3,6) 6 Fellow's last chance found in religious house (5) 7 Make use of amenity, whenever (7) 8 Send a tie made from South American mineral (8) 9 They may be desirable for those with convictions to be followed up (5,9) 15 Urged on to deliver though having minor deformity (3-6) 16 Socratic problem expressed in cryptic verse (8) 18 Ink pans ruin table linen (7) 19 Hang back on day, not completing sports model (7) 20 Girl's gems (6) 22 Visit international centre for protest (3-2) Thursday's solution Across: 1 Pressure groups, 9 Impulse, 10 Launder, 11 Economical, 12 Glum, 14 Needed, 15 Straddle, 17 Reaction, 19 Mammee, 22 Abet, 23 Effortless, 25 Endmost, 26 Galatea, 27 Administrators. Down: 1 Price increases, 2 Explode, 3 Silhouette, 4 Reel in, 5 Gallants, 6 Opus, 7 Peddled, 8 Trumpeter swans, 13 Tarantella, 16 Confetti, 18 Amended, 20 Maestro, 21 Forget, 24 Topi.