CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Authority makes you cross,

regularly sick inside (6)

5 One girl carrying another across

river in small country (8) 9 Element having game in shop

repeatedly troublesome (10) 10 Support player playing after

break from game? (4)

11 Provider of weaponry in a group of jolly types accompanying our monarch (8)

12 Really enjoy school subject?

Latin initially is hard! (6)

13 Too critical, sometimes putting

many characters off (4) 15 Fellow who sang funny songs

somewhere in Belgium (8)

18 Be twitching with everyone joining in, as befits some dancing (8)

19 Army officer preceding English king noted for merriment (4)

21 Fear a bishop, sadly lacking first

sign of saintliness (6)

23 A target’s hit in sporting

events (8)

25 Sportingly deliver sporting

trophy? (4)

26 Excursion by lake has

Heather gibbering (10) 27 Timely message about bodyguard (8)

28 No return for one? (6)

DOWN

2 Guide employer around hospital (5)

3 Actor so out of sorts, endlessly unwell – medicine needed (6,3) 4 Call on old lover, animated about end of affair (6)

5 A rarer critic troubled about RAF provision for planes (8-7) 6 Tapestry hung upside down in amateur operation – chaos! (8) 7 Staggering movement to capture British revolutionary (5) 8 Up a sort of tree, cat

learns to jump (9)

14 See son in domestic

party being horrible (9) 16 Learner in ridiculously hot dance that requires much athleticism (9)

17 Somewhere near Fleet Street,

editor is left behind (8)

20 A grassy area cut – first requirement for Saturday matches (6)

22 Time to tuck into island

dish (5)

24 Cast aside yearbook, having ignored the second article (5)