CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Animal returned to Arthur’s

place? (7)

5 Whistle-blower concerned with

liberal swallowing ecstasy (7) 9 Artist upset by competitor’s

appearance (7)

10 Man comes from taverns,

smashed (7)

11 Field in which one studies the

earth (9)

12 Vegetable I put between two

legs (5)

13 Flowers came up with spades (5) 15 Groan, consumed by obvious

lapse (9)

17 Plots in Green’s novel (9) 19 Back in saddle I yearn to climb

down (5)

22 Finish third in race and be

defeated (5)

23 Bribe American with cheap

second homes (9)

25 Preparing cocoa but heartlessly

leaves (7)

26 Strength in golf decreasing? (7) 27 Regularly tenses head after

doctor put a bandage on (7) 28 Celebrities, for example,

restricted by loans (7)

DOWN

1 Golfer with clubs first

to make mistake (7)

2 Reddish colour on small

leaves on an island (7)

3 One finishing school

perhaps not a crank (5)

4 Call doctor then elope (9) 5 Copper dependable?

Not at first (5)

6 Your flu is developing in a

violent manner (9)

7 Wading through town (7)

8 Dead drunk, texting endlessly about

Charlie (7)

14 Nick spells strings of words? (9) 16 German city starts to treat immigrants as legally required (9) 17 Impassioned former

lover advanced (7) 18 Excellent run produces

cheers (7)

20 Joy, maybe, from Beethoven’s second movement (7)

21 Wise men after party getting quantities of medicine (7)

23 Wide thoroughfare

south of Belgium (5) 24 By the side of

a pine (5)