THE BS CROSSWORD

# 2877

ACROSS

1 Shorts showing tail. From top to bottom! Take Off! (7) 5 Look after, if you like (4,3) 9 Small United Nations state (South Korea) getting excellent, if abbreviated, kind of exposure (9) 10 Plagiarises beds for babes (5) 11 Fear of redundancy drove him to

breaking point (7) 12 Breeze for a drink (7) 13 A silent partner at the card at

the card table (5) 15 Male bonds for officer on craft

(9) 17 Made to come to the point (9) 19 Amount remaining to be divided

(5) 21 Doesn't keep the profits (7) 23 Undecided as yet, but it could

mean a quiet conclusion (7) 25 Currently omitted twice from the

burial places in the catacombs (5) 26 It enables one to get along at

the seaside (9) 27 Lose, divided by pitcher's error (7) 28 Anger, for example, employs a

source of pain (7)

DOWN

1 Players were ahead, so moved defensively (7) 2 Treated things found in the

stone debris (5) 3 The foolishness of a girl going

round the union with it (7) 4 Wheelwrights' representatives (9) 5 No backing with a thousand dollars taken from, U.S. government plant (5) 6 Coke sir? Drunk in the

mountains! (7) 7 A ruling that's not very clear

(5,4) 8 Has recourse to the kinds, first

about (7) 14 Tight periods in the interim (9) 16 Oil depots destroyed ocean

habitats (4,5) 17 A layer of tar must make a

difference (7) 18 Reading could give us unending

pleasure, maybe (7) 19 A hundred at a time approaching the navy for business (7) 20 Sirs, get out: the beast is coming

! (7) 22 Sentimental concession to party

extremes (5) 24 Mother is outside with Muslim

priests (5)