National Post (National Edition)
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Look to the orchestra to accept the consequences? (4,3,5) 9 Listen in, as dope very briefly translated (9) 10 Clever sting (5)
11 Seen from behind, a chap with a soft hat (6) 12 Keep mum in school, right away (8)
13 Warm to a dirty home (6) 15 Dear me, article penned by communist is erudite (4-4) 18 Calorific food party lover eats that’s disgusting! (8) 19 Drawing done, else half finished (6)
21 Broken trust in a person exposed (8)
23 Sexy man I love gets workshop (6)
26 Extra large mushroom (5) 27 One granny and one friend, lifeless (9)
28 Happy then, or poorly, youth’s beginning course of treatment (12)
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NATIONAL POST, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 1 Spring in well, filthy place (7) 2 Cauldron primarily, cooker for witches (5) 3 Check light for Ashes encounter, perhaps? (4,5) 4 Make listener listen, finally (4) 5 Leader of competition in plan due to fail, fourth or worse? (8) 6 Playwright is barely surviving, eating nothing initially (5) 7 Bird — canary perhaps captivating a collector in the garden (8) 8 In protest, one ducks out of it (6)
14 Real duty abandoned, cheating (8)
16 If nothing else, most foolish? (9) 17 Problem rewritten in quotes (8) 18 Generator country set up after disheartening day (6) 20 Private rooms overlooking cathedral city, approximately (7)
22 Romeo and friend get better (5) 24 Short, a theatrical production (5)
25 Don’t eat quickly (4)