CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Put up arms, and their attachments (8,6)

10 Without a recipe, cooks whisper and drink (7,2)

11 Something Italian chefs make in annoyance, adding nothing (5) 12 Gong goes about one – start of crossword-solving exam? (7) 13 Tyger with a new spin (6) 15 Heartless sport that may be seen in ring (4)

17 Swimming as vocation, somewhere beside the Atlantic (4,6)

18 Sprats at dinner-time – one’s option would be to do this rabbit (4,3,3)

20 Insect following grouse (4) 22 Son gets tot up, interrupting rest (6)

23 Pickled eel sandwiches German city backed for honour (7) 26 Universal smell reservists found over naval vehicle (1-4) 27 Wreckage may be acceptable in cutting allotment (9) 28 Gas ring let fuel spread, sticking to its own controls (4-10)

DOWN

2 Watered the garden in tights? (5)

3 Clue an alternative for ‘Loosen’ (6)

4 Saudis all owe debts – to a large extent that’s forbidden (10) 5 Grave message close to charcuterie: ‘Ready to eat’ (4) 6 Learner at first not taking part in developing spicy mime (3-4) 7 Break down seeing detective’s meeting with hood (9) 8 Battle with copper one might be

hard-pushed to win? (5-9) 9 Green, blue and red

school flag (7,7)

14 Bossy male hack wearing wire

for broadcast? (10)

16 Lolly on list as something that

adds to a meal? (5,4)

19 Fraud is bit of a blow (7) 21 Young admirer follows popular character shown by TV before five (6)

24 One sitting in outbuilding in

Scotland, 21 (5)

25 Leader to call newspaper’s

bluff (4)