Across
- 3. Archana, by Aran (7)
- 9. how Aran keeps going long after most would call it a day (4)
- 11. how Aran’s humour is, and what sometimes mortifies Archana (10)
- 12. unique to Aran’s arm (9)
- 13. in leaps and bounds in the birthday boy (8)
- 14. always loses to Aran (4)
- 16. bold and beautiful (8)
- 20. what Aran likes to do on holiday while Archana wants to read a book (7)
- 22. how Aran tends to be about most things, Archana excluded (6)
- 23. to know him is to know this is him (8)
- 24. privilege quietly granted to Archana whenever the remote appears (6)
- 25. Archana’s favourite solution (7)
- 26. a shared love (8)
- 27. unusually small in the birthday boy (4)
Down
- 1. something that always features in our holidays (6)
- 2. what Archana jokingly claims is 5 foot 8 (6)
- 4. how Archana views the birthday boy (8)
- 5. what Aran often becomes for Archana on travels (6)
- 6. Aran’s title in Archana’s family (14)
- 7. Aran’s natural state without effort (3)
- 8. future potential, where one now stands (8)
- 9. how to know Aran is in the room (6)
- 10. unusually large in the birthday boy (5)
- 12. Aran’s one last bedtime task (6)
- 15. home (4)
- 17. something Aran has even on an ordinary day (5)
- 18. how Aran is with everyone (8)
- 19. how Aran finished his first day of work (8)
- 21. where mornings together sometimes begin (4)