THE BS CROSSWORD #3190

ACROSS: 1 Tickling ribs, lie in a heap (7) 5 Many honour poet from N. Italy (7) 9 Daughter goes to foreign capital airport (5) 10 Produces information the sender contrived to withhold (9) 11 Hold back the catalogue of things to be referred to (9) 12 Communist in charge returning for drink (5) 13 Monk kept out of sinful, sexy dance (7) 15 Shot at you, as peas might be (7) 17 At no time I insist ! (2,5) 19 A game stuffing ketchup in balloons (7) 21 Internet (essentially internet) composer (5) 23 Blunt to no purpose (9) 25 Nice place to stay and shoot Beau, for a change (9) 26 Cash transmitted difficult to handle inside - get the picture? (5) 27 Wealthy doctor and needy eccentric (7) 28 Earth work equal to a rise in soda ? (7) DOWN: 1 Another arid state is basic (7) 2 Does he put the views of all in the wheelwright's shop ? (9) 3 Bill, when about fifty, is desolate (5)

4 Girl Ena accepted vile

concoction (7) 5 Emissaries for example

featured in strange tales (7) 6 Mean possibly to get,a chin wrong as a believer in asceticism (9)

7 Coming up, "un petit coin du

bateau", so to speak... (5)

8 A title indeed much wished

for (7)

14 Harassed lady embracing

poetry with disfavour ? (9) 16 Rents must be paid on it for

years (5-4)

17 Girls here at Cambridge take a chap up when troubled internally (7)

18 Vital loose thread on

jumper? (3,4)

19 Stress that the aim is to jump

each second (5,2) 20 Moderates rumours about

school tasks (7)

22 Burn to destroy a bear? (5) 24 A perissodactyl is to become

gradually lean, I hear (5)