CRYPtIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 What a shame strike set back Italian wine (7) 5 Flop, with a cry (7) 9 Eastern legislator going in to pace (5) 10 Wrongly price pear leaves of a sort (4,5) 11 Rose lives by bay, and Rose is found again (12) 14 Symbol of Ireland: fake stone (8)

16 SCTV’s Martin involved in American Dream (6) 18 Destroyed relic, eating a pastry (6)

19 For audit, stop taverns’ illegal entries (5-3) 21 Swimming moves of Ross: sick, sick, sick (7,5) 25 Article borne by beast of burden I’ve awakened (4,5) 26 Southern group of mine greeting Japanese dish (5) 27 French painter is small, embraced by spouse (7) 28 Error caught by two different boys is deceptive? (5,2) DOWN 1 Parts of beds tangle up long hair (10) 2 Medication I put inside truly for corrective purposes (10) 3 A turkey’s molecular makeup (5)

4 I care for lost group of flyers (3,5)

5 Bad adjective for a candle? (6) 6 Shifted ten apes in seven-year stretches (9) 7 I dropped it: two eggs, pepper, and salt (4) 8 Flag roller (4) 12 Basic snare cracked skulls (10) 13 Conversation is a person’s failing (3,7) 15 Slickers in company with one surrounded by singers (9)

17 Drill in Asian Sea, living like a sloth (8) 20 Praise bad dream (6) 22 Some buckwheat in Erika’s hamburger (5) 23 Fool rascal endlessly (4) 24 Release clock reading the wrong way (4)