THE BS CROSSWORD
# 2839
ACROSS
1 Very chilly and depressed by the winter weather (4,4,4)
10 Go in for modified coverage (7)
11 Bush loses East — at the end,
gains Iowa (a state) (7)
12 Drink made from stimulating leaves, with nothing put in (5)
13 Nice crop reaped for this blueblood in a ruling partnership (2-6)
15 Peeresses refusal to agree with blasted portent (10)
16 Sunhat, the best one (4)
18 Macpherson shouted, “Out of
bounds!” (4)
20 A fight, but nobody is
charged (4,3,3)
22 Spider at spinning (8)
24 In short, it used to curtail a
Roman emperor (5)
26 Lacking brothers and sisters, and just twelve months old (4,3)
27 Gnome in an unusual
nickname (7)
28 Grafted wobbly dental
parts with new filling (12)
DOWN
2 It can mean greater pride for it’s parents (4,3)
3 Steamier parts of the Arab
nation (8)
4 Dean in disgusting
exhibition (4)
5 He got merry, perhaps, making a weatherman’s instrument (10)
6 Smell from river, by the
mouth (5)
7 Newton committed to figure
out research (3,4)
8 Prejudice, before becoming
pregnant (13)
9 Turning up with stuff (13)
14 Clearly the speaker doesn’t
suffer from it (10)
17 Downy fibre attached to
twig (6,2)
19 A tract of meadow felt to be
different (7)
21 Fall among the French amount adjusted by the east (7)
23 Worship for an Indian
miss? (5)
25 Black cover can be such a
bore (4)