The Saturday Paper

The Cryptic

Solution next week

- Mungo MacCallum is a political journalist and commentato­r and the author of several books. He is The Saturday Paper’s crossword writer.

ACROSS

1. Enters the country – Italians include 2000, good estimates (10)

6. Law turn for industrial organisati­on (1,1,1,1)

10. Natal, confused territory with a city in Georgia ( 7 )

11. Again got the message about mob report ( 7 )

12. Bury, net and weave ( 9 )

13. Keen, agree to rumble ( 5 )

14. Censor a line – boring ( 5 )

15. Ore, little developed for the main part (5,4)

17. Snags as east blocs are dismantled ( 9 )

20. Number three, roughly ( 5 )

21. State of insensibil­ity reported at Buddhist monument ( 5 )

23. Air tunnel damaged, out of gear (2,7)

25. Hands out of whack – dismal English outcome ( 7 )

26. Amend charge for issue ( 7 )

27. Time for fruit ( 4 )

28. Bribes for sugar and honey (10)

DOWN

1. Irish terrorists question one from the Middle East ( 5 )

2. Limit problems over workers and aggressors ( 9 )

3. High-ranking officer, Australian, in the trough – but he runs the whole business (7,7)

4. First man, a worker, unyielding ( 7 )

5. Diligent, Hemingway includes article ( 7 )

7. Disconcert­ing noise from coal head Hancock ( 5 )

8. Discover nude, rawer jockeys and tradies, for two ( 9 )

9. Could be 3. or five – hex cue, cite problems (5,9)

14. Bloomed around ship – yes, bloomed! ( 9 )

16. Alternativ­ely, return to that woman – clever! ( 9 )

18. Ring up, make a noise like a cow and kept doggo! (4,3)

19. Evil church about 5. ( 7 )

22. Distressed superior class ( 5 )

24. Queues for hits of cocaine ( 5 )

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