THE BS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Crippled as camel lost it's head and plunged into a hole (4)

9 Barge in flailing baton,

ducking missile (6,4) 10 Eccentric water controller

goes to party (6) 11 Get Rome’s mother to lie

about military supplies (8) 12 Existing part of a verb or

noun? (4)

13 Puts one’s best foot

forward? (7,3) 17 Accompanied by

intelligence and the

beginning of humour (4) 18 They might respond to

some push-button work (5) 19 Charity having an inclination to throw the wrong person out (4) 20 Take your gloves off and you will be more comfortable (4,6)

22 Being cold, the youth

dressed (4)

23 Named after losing copy...

mine (8)

27 Ordinary public land (6) 28 Empty letter-box for

crossword addicts? (5,5) 29 Called for right sort of horse (4)

DOWN

1 Mafia head’s policy about appeal to eminence in Rome (10)

2 Cut to the quick about hole

in the ground (8)

3 Conclude gold and black

may be approved of (10) 4 Dizziness experienced without me being unpleasant (4)

5 I leave the animal for its fur! (4)

# 3130 6 Some describe rising from

bed as a bloomer! (6)

7 Dead duck, perhaps (4) 14 Occupied again? (5) 15 Bewildered and

overwrought (10)

16 How pencil should be

sharpened? Sort of (2,2,1,5) 19 Cruelly mock in chase for small

sign of past infection (8) 21 Making a row inside? (6) 24 Looking washed-out,

having a quiet drink (4) 25 My utterly sparkling kitchen,

initially, smells nice (4) 26 Farewell from agency with

love (4)