Last Week’s Cryptic

Mungo MacCallum’s Cryptic

ACROSS

1. Two elements: a contest for Rumpole ( 6 )

4. A study circle for mother’s tumours ( 8 )

9. Poison number 99 following behind ( 7 )

11. Endure less leave ( 7 )

12. Follow – time to run! ( 5 )

13. John brings in fish for great jazzman ( 9 )

14. Breezes from the side in angry turns (10)

16. Criticises snap back ( 4 )

19. English church, ring and reverberate! ( 4 )

20. Briar roses are elegant – sin to cultivate! (10)

22. Mounts garden tool, could be lucky ( 9 )

23. A mountain, back over the last square ( 5 )

25. Sacked? Ring back, not on (4,3)

26. Small, and a bloke who puts you to sleep ( 7 )

27. Brew teas after balls, and gorges ( 8 )

28. Good man, individual – deceased, out of it ( 6 )

DOWN

1. Broken earth – pain and sorrow ( 9 )

2. Follower of Haile Selassie – a star emerges ( 5 )

3. Do scene differently – make it shorter ( 8 )

5. Traders, traders … swindlers! (6,7)

6. South African writer Gordimer – not available to eat! ( 6 )

7. Spoil potassium, time for a cart for Samuel Clemens (4,5)

8. Faint poles around court ( 5 )

10. Cannibalising the overweight – or just chatting! (7,3,3)

15. Return to that woman – intelligent and different! ( 9 )

17. Sydney University blemished, but endured ( 9 )

18. Get moving – road over Eastern point damaged! (4,2,2)

21. Ask for money with individual? Piss off! ( 6 )

22. That man will ring for a greeting ( 5 )

24. Amend, revise – they work in PR ( 5 )