The Saturday Paper

The Cryptic

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ACROSS

1. Deserter returns to brown Scottish cloth (6)

4. Attributes, like cheat directions (8)

9. Soft drink score, becoming a place to secure loans (3-4) 11. Nervier sort of scale (7) 12. Passage? I say I will (5)

13. Raced back sculling, getting closer (9)

14. Place for donations – any rich bit received (7,3)

16. Princess’s hot meal (4)

19. Lore, located in part (4)

20. Unimportan­t person, bankrupt, right – but he runs 9! (10)

22. Italian food, thrown at the

pigs (9)

23. Put a lid over young bird (5) 25. Belgian, confused with the

man from Calcutta (7)

26. Fish having a nap? (7)

27. Keeping greens, roughly

sealing with a note (8)

28. Hair? Leave it on the

beach! (6)

DOWN

1. Cad parent collapses on stage – she’s a hoofer! (3,6)

2. Comic operas lose Australian ties (5)

3. Late itch develops into affinity to sport (8)

5. Gamble after old coin – but it could put the nation’s economy in peril! (9,4) 6. Sombrero often found inside? Put on new tiles! (6)

7. On top of the stumps, one fuse in one person’s area of operations (9)

8. Brush off quiet carpet (5)

10. Old coin, distant object of an old method of transport (5-8) 15. Last slain, wild day after Halloween (3,6)

17. Difficult, smelt intransige­nt (4-5)

18. Two drugs for a nutcase (8)

21. Slave of time – a short hour for

everyone (6)

22. Small, competent and black

(5)

24. Pastry, thanks to Michelange­lo’s masterpiec­e (5)

Solution next week

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Prime Ministers.
MUNGO MacCALLUM is the author of The Good, the Bad & the Unlikely: Australia’s Prime Ministers.

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