CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 I’d panic with our garb astray – could it be in here? (6,8) 9 Successful book rep doing more business than the rest? (10) 11 Undertaking demand

after short time (4)

12 Sheep – not so many

in the middle (3)

13 They may hiss, exerting

pressure (5,5)

16 Class enthralled by tutors or teachers (4)

17 Stories offering discord reader finally abandoned (7)

18 Any number taken on board by one engaged in money matters (7)

20 Start to select apparatus for

dramatic performance (4) 21 Earnest prayers from competitors filled with worry (10)

23 Building secured, sealed off at

the front (3)

24 Island in risky enterprise (4) 25 Athlete comes to Scottish peak, having eaten a bit of food (6,4) 28 Daughter is in grass on blanket (14)

DOWN

1 Be like a pachyderm and don’t get upset easily (4,1,5,4)

2 Very dry except when river

floods in (4)

3 Quartet participating in

concerts no longer (4) 4 See battle trophy being put outside, a sort of shell (7) 5 Little old peers and VIPS, terribly dictatorial (10) 6 Happy to embrace good person, a competitor (10)

8 Artist careered off course in a zone few get to? (10,4) 10 Mum’s upset the little boy (3) 14 The saint wicked? Is the opposite (10)

15 Erotic miss involved in muscle-building exercises (10) 19 Lieutenant to suffer at home (5-2)

22 Breeze is fine, clearing the head (3)

26 Essayist producing excellent article in French, revolutionary (4)

27 Attend bash (4)