Last Week’s Cryptic
ACROSS 1. American author a jerk – but lyrical! (6)
4. Mummy and dead bodies – it’s the dogs! (8)
10. Pasta devoured past eight (9) 11. Scent goes to my capital, says the man from Verona (5)
12. Retailers and us combine to produce a classic adventure featuring 21 (8,6)
14. English bound to escape (5) 16. Treat dole with contempt – or
put up with it (9)
18. Publicity attired and stated (9) 20. Raid where the actors are (5) 21. Winter underwear for liver complaint for one-legged pirate (4,4,6)
25. Directions, mate – reverse
error! (5)
26. Took ship – but a note goes
awry (4,2,3)
27. Balls finished? Excessive! (8) 28. Trade in islands a standard of
excellence (6) DOWN 1. Dip around for Col the bowler (4,3,3)
2. Wipe out time over south-east (5)
3. Popular heats abandoned quickly (2,5)
5. A conservative politician – I claim to be somewhere else (5) 6. Short promotion for a caravan, perhaps (7)
7. Legend observes annotations (9)
8. Take a guess at small bill (4) 9. Repeats flawed treaties (8) 13. Ladies riot shamelessly over leaders (10)
15. CUL – an unlikely pairing (3,6) 17. English in forced landing while taking on loads (8)
19. Intellectual E (7)
20. Left out order one time with
Hughes (7)
22. Instrument from the heart (5) 23. View permission to travel
around territory (5)
24. Singer with a big time band (4)