THE BS CROSSWORD

# 3134

ACROSS

8 Art thou going to lose strength? (4) 9 Emerged, as the chick did when it hatched out (5,5) 10 A lot of talk about cake? (6) 11 French university resentful about german capital (8) 12 Elated having got a rise (8) 14 You, Tim have been sent to New York to put down the rebellion (6) 16 Wet spot about right for a racketeer (4) 17 Plunged into A-grade video backlist (5) 18 Corn for the horses? (4) 19 Fur-trader mislaying part of skin (6) 21 Backed up, due to a bend in the pipe (8) 23 He caters for people who don’t follow rules (8) 26 Instruments used in soap production (6) 27 Can’t take in the half of religion that’s dodgy (10) 28 Drip out of the lake? (4)

DOWN

1 Doctor said over and over, very quietly, to look down one’s nose (10) 2 Providing with workers who are sticking? (8) 3 Wretched Jack caught in the plane (6) 4 Fiddles with the front part (4) 5 Live with Elizabeth’s father with Moore returning dirty (8) 6 Dismissed, it became known (3,3) 7 As a party there was nothing to it, old chap (4) 13 He gets immersed in his work (5) 15 No blame now involving duchess (10) 17 Difficulty in discerning character of Lydia’s ex, possibly (8) 18 Shortens dog-ends (8) 20 Like Mariana’s grange, made to crumble (6) 22 Played a poor shot but did better than (6) 24 Put in a state of suspense (4) 25 They go down regularly, newspaper staff! (4)