CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Sounds like where money is only to get wool (8) 5. Artillery opposition… (4) 8. … may be unlikely to hit (8) 10. Partly untoward to (4)

11. It will gather a lot of interest (5)

13. Retinues return endlessly to be together (5) 14. Kentuckian, untie without the skill (5)

15. Starts a row going in a flash (6)

17. Maybe an auld carriage or new car (6)

19. Hasten lack of coolness in nursery school (5) 21. Famous – but not Edward (5)

23. Student takes some notes, we hear, for stand (5)

25. A lot – a thousand – take your pick (4)

26. It might be a toiling task for gems (8)

27. Skillets oddly create sediment (4)

28. Posies Ed rearranged in series (8)

Down

1. Col. curses home for decor hues (6,7)

2. Ian is, for a change, in the desert (5)

3. Do they let the virtuoso musician in to play in? (6,4) 4. Consumes in a sweatshirt (4) 6. What a sailor wears if he knows the ropes? (7)

7. Punk doctors OK to get some help with sleep (8,5)

9. Throw Jay out of knight fight as headless (4)

10. Pottery made in furnace (3) 12. Anna & Uri ski perhaps as they are of this nationality (10)

16. Dale ran out for a kidney gland (7)

18. No rum on the milkrun in the oven (4)

20. He’s a fish! (3)

22. It returned in the lead having been roofed? (5)

24. An angry country by the sound of it (4)

Yesterday

Across: 1 & 10ac. Spaghetti junction, 6. Hue, 8. Skinny-dipping, 9. Ease,

12. Basins, 13. Deltas, 16. Widowers, 18. Last, 21. Flash in the pan, 22. Lay,

23. Elopement.

Down: 1. Susie, 2. Aliases, 3. Hint, 4. Tedium, 5. Impacted, 6. Haiti,

7. Engines, 11. Snowshoe, 12. Bowlful, 14. Trample, 15. Bronco, 17. Diary,

19. Tenet, 20. Thee.