GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Welsh 24 has criminal brothers, except Henry (7) 5 At the end, Number 10 mislead Britain with spirit (3,4) 10 50 + 0 + 5 + 1/4 = 0? (4) 11 Daughter’s into grooming over time, keeping up appearances (10) 12 Mark’s drumbeat (6) 13 Old car, since exterior lost in jam (8) 14 F or M, like Marilyn Monroe? (3,6) 16 Inner Hebrides partner (5) 17 Dared to tremble with fear (5) 19 In ancient times, say, raised flower (9) 23 Football team in nasty ground winning first game (1,1,6) 24 Steal about 1p’s worth (6) 26 Published paper retires girl over nothing? Inconceivable! (10) 27 Torture’s not even legitimate (4) 28 Normally left Australia and America going west (2,5) 29 Embrace internet 16? (7)

DOWN

2 Smelly old dog ran to ex, shaking every tail? (7) 3 Competition rising in cost? Never! (5) 4 Prat stumbles over low bar (7) 6 Awkward size OK for sumo wrestlers? (6) 7 Shakespearean doctor’s credo: bury sick (4-5) 8 Produced positives and negatives when treated as a celebrity, going topless? (7) 9 Burning petrol joins up

to produce power (3,10) 15 Spring day weather returns

with southern Europeans (9) 18 Maybe in the future Arsenal condemns Sun after Gary’s hacked (3,4) 20 Office workers found to be tipsy, swooning over good man (7) 21 Abbot’s put on posh

new shirt to remove ties (7) 22 Decipher pointless

meaning of puzzle (6) 25 Old fashioned mister exchanged letters underground (5)