The Saturday Paper

Last Week’s Cryptic

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

ACROSS

1. Regurgitat­e rubbish fish – and get a medico (6)

4. Payback for unfortunat­e rare slip (8)

9. Good man with superior comedy style (5-2)

11. Sounds like sneezes, and what you need for them (7)

12. Run Australian 500 with two individual­s – they run from the centre to the circumfere­nce! (5)

13. Terriers found in the atmosphere of English valleys (9)

14. Police chief – a snake! (10)

16. Pelt small family (4)

19. Belt small remains (4)

20. 1000 rise in the pavilion (10) 22. Three directions to the actors

with the French port city (9) 23. Radical sounding touring

schedule (5)

25. Warning: support needed for

the front of the beast (7)

26. Wrecked vessel, small amount, then zero – an insidious drug (7)

27. Spot drunks (8)

28. Publicity opening on the

way (6)

DOWN

1. Hell around tough regions (9) 2. Vegetable singed, we hear (5) 3. A sundial for the veteran?

(3-5)

5. Internet meant trouble – but it provides amusement (13) 6. Dwell about the team (6)

7. Old money, five – fifty with a small car or a Greek feed! (9)

8. Leans and rolls (5)

10. Resist seduction – drama incomprehe­nsible! (4,4,2,3) 15. Father’s weapons used for identifica­tion (9)

17. Dug endless – just beat the opposition (6,3)

18. Cites a source, like about writer (8)

21. Run fast, work past impudence

(6)

22. Note found in the middle of lifting a heavy weight – Jack Sprat’s diet (2,3)

24. One French, 150 English – it’s

relative! (5)

Solution next week

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