THE BS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Announce Cinderella's fateful destination and cry for a spell (4)

9 Relentless one driving the cattle back before the halfhearted mob (10) 10 I raved about being changed

(6)

11 Chart turned up containing a grid that's wrong, for example (8)

12 REM do well during sleep to be on nodding terms with the stars? (4-4) 14 Tony initially adds irritation

on the air (6)

16 Animals celebrated going

west (4)

17 Might be Maltese, Greek, or a

mixture of the two (5) 18 Cylindrical body has a resting

place outside (4)

19 Makes headlines? (6)

21 Mafia hit some who sing (8) 23 What's the cost of a pair of

such fruit? (8)

26 Well, that may make you get

150 in 1100 (6)

27 Gather to break a Crete gang

? (10)

28 In the hedge another wild

cherry (4)

DOWN

1 One has a homely following

as one gets around (10) 2 They ask for what's due to

them or so they believe (8) 3 Durham's opener caught by

better keeper, they say (6) 4 Direct water on legs maybe

(4)

5 Costs are rising for

philosopher (8)

6 Andrew is the new

superintendent (6) 7 Advertise electrical accessory (4)

13 Programmable computer chips offering noted programmes (5)

15 Eloquent tailor going around

with Cora (10)

17 Always a right one, it's

sometimes said (8) 18 Axle-bushes, for instance,

for carriages (8)

20 Twists into coils, you say (6) 22 Crammed in one's case (6) 24 Stern but it's very soft and you may be doubly sure there's nothing in it (4) 25 Clean the decks for surgical

inspection, perhaps (4)