THE BS CROSSWORD

# 3172

ACROSS

1 Spanish Co. tried out some

baked tucker (7,7)

10 Hold up a skirt with nothing in it, so to speak (5)

11 Disparaging to say the choir is no good, as each sing in tune (9)

12 Barker’s dull move into

uncertain ground (7) 13 Aware of square in toilet

ring (5,2)

14 1957 Nobel Prize author is taken aback by leaves for dyeing (5)

16 Eric gives to mischief

makers (4,5)

19 Only one subject in this

leisure area? (5,4) 20 Gives birth to ill-feeling

aboard ship? (5)

22 Give up and go under (7) 25 His improving speech is just

part of the service (7) 27 Make persistent requests to

bring in half prunes (9) 28 Flat country, but it could be

almost Alpine (5)

29 Show displeasure at ending

the store chaos (5,4,5)

DOWN

2 Flag round gun a military

medal incorporated (9)

3 The mother, on return, has

itchy feet (5)

4 Sang about heaven first, the right one — the French paradise on earth (7-2)

5 Go at university and make it

more lively (5)

6 Winning hands at strip poker — tarts sigh about such (9)

7 How north wind blows for

one left in icy surroundings (5) 8 Italian gentlemen’s token

or piece of silver (7)

9 Capital investment for the

saintly (6)

15 Say, Bill’s blushing for so

mixed a career? (9)

17 Mere linesmen, but their work is greatly esteemed (4,5)

18 A direction to make no

threats (5-4)

19 Unable to sleep, due to the

ship’s movement? (7) 21 Almost calm a Williams

sister (6)

23 Cover burial centre in

holiday island (5)

24 Burn to destroy a bear? (5) 26 Cheap, plentiful fruit (5)