THE BS CROSSWORD #3324

Across:

1 Salesman taking cover from

censure (7)

5 Cold little house turned up

Japanese money in a pickle (7) 9 Get punished for an

unconventional topic (3,2) 10 Unstained slip covers (9) 11 Aeroplane type returns left, circling old city with unpleasant smell, quietly (9)

12 Pacific address attributing sex

appeal to a monster bird (5) 13 Nicholas possibly the last character to be carried in a limo? (4)

15 Being a French one, Ned will polish it up at last to get the weight off him (8)

18 Best selling confectionery (3,5) 19 Tariff obligation which keeps

servicemen on the job (4) 22 Behaves like a lunatic when

right sort of save is available (5) 24 The latter’s leader who makes

Homer fret (3,6)

26 American girl has the edge when

getting oil out of Turkish port (9) 27 One hundred-odd bits of bombs

in some projectiles initially (5) 28 Crumple paper, for instance (7)

Cigarette ends ? (7)

Down:

1 Speak about ceremony held

outside backward church (6) 2 Star-spotter sees Hemingway

mock love (9)

3 Excel in garden party? (5) 4 Was he the one to sound as if

used the pan with the food for

Robin Hood ? (5,4)

5 Give a fool the chop ? (5)

6 Nurse died in turmoil when not the target of another’s yearning (9)

7 Insect’s segmental back-plate in Mount Cook (5)

8 An agreeable chap (3-3)

14 Once rises develop this should

disappear (9)

16 No more worry for the graduate, perhaps, if the cut is not too deep (3-6)

17 Mabel’s tie is knotted in a

manner that’s praiseworthy (9) 20 Urges reform at secondary level

in Belgium (6)

21 Thespian failures, when the

audience stay cold (6)

23 More disgusting than liver could

be (5)

24 Shows determination with a nail

and cog (5)

25 Marjorie looked in the window (5)