Four Shires Guild of Bell Ringers

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El Presidente's Crossword

El Presidente continues to excite the crossword aficionados — and this Editor is hugely grateful that he does so. Once again, his printer seems to be losing the lead in its pencil; and we hope this malady doesn't spread to El Presidente himself, or horror of horrors, came from...!

Down

2 and 25 across 	Young wizard (5)
3 	Elevate (5)
4 	Ends joined or got married (7)
5 	These towers make less progress (7)
6 	Modern publishing (7)
7 	Like the French, this is us (9)
8 	Upon Tyne or under Lyme? (9)
14 	Originally made of timber to hold the canons,
 	now usually of metal (9)
15 	With one exception, a description of the Committee
 	at the last AGM (2-7)
18 	Japanese warriors (7)
19 	Often describes the treble (7)
20 	The usual reason for improvement in the 'go'
 	of the bells (7)
23 	Organise (3-2)
24 	Go away. Possibly without permission (5)

Across

1 	Our Four (6)
5 	The steel pins which turn inside the bearings (8)
9 	Features or accounts in a magazine (8)
10 	e.g. Astute, perceptive (6)
11 	CP is pretty in its use. (anag) (10)
12 	Not less than 5000 changes (4)
13 	Practice at Blockley, Hook Norton and Willersey, etc (8)
16 	Sows (6)
17 	Manages all nine places (6)
18 	Non-conformities. Minor with a tenor behind is an
 	exaggeration (8)
21 	It's said I will go to Skye (4)
22 	Secular ring at the Town Hall (10)
25 	See 2 down (6)
26 	One cannot drive off without it (8)
27 	A Winter hazard (8)
28 	Meal before retiring (6)

Answer to crossword in the January 2012 Newsletter