THE BS CROSSWORD

# 3002

ACROSS

1 Lives if good at heart ! (6) 5 Fight for which the protagonists are in form ? (5,3) 9 More feasible if that is admitted by perverted killer (8) 10 Itinerant having second thoughts about moon (6) 11 Unusual lag in wages for city man (10) 12 Cylindrical body has a resting place outside (4) 13 Drug in damaged carton, I see (8) 16 Provided with illumination, naturally, from paper set on fire (6) 17 Just the girl to spoil a man (6) 19 Somehow Goose Ted (or Stooge Ed) decline (2,2,4) 21 Perhaps, many a bird (4) 22 In this sport, do you learn skills from exercise books ? (10) 25 Bash that woman here (6) 26 Occasionally, but not always, lit? (3,3,2) 27 For example, doctor left worker a vegetable (8) 28 What she is doing when Cynthia, shortly, loses her ring ? (6)

DOWN

2 Ride in a helicopter? (5) 3 Where in Yorkshire, pronounced clues are to be found (5) 4 Sends it off, but is most derogatory (7) 5 ... from the heart of cicada, injured around the rear end (7) 6 Hangs on when the Pope loses a ring in shifting sand (7) 7 Migrating bass: known winter traveling hazard (9) 8 A variety of atomiser for perfume (9) 14 Decoding any signal that's broadcast (9) 15 Has no chip been found in it ? One would hardly think so ! (5,4) 18 Airing differences over English or British colony (7) 19 Something to stick your foot into ? (3-4) 20 Craft, if employed in trade (7) 23 Fish vessel reaches New York (5) 24 Circus performer 150 acknowledge (5)