THE BS CROSSWORD #3326

Across:

1 Silly ideas get selfdebased, governors’ attendants

(5-2-4)

7 Officer in charge takes note - he’s just a small wheel ! (3)

9 The length of the links? (5) 10 First on the list of

Christmas presents (9) 11 Whether it turned out to

be in addition to that (9) 12 Ages taken on Sky sport (5) 13 Was found net guilty, yet

got fine (7)

15 Every other one, upset,

asks for the maximum

degree (4)

18 Old acquaintance (4) 20 Windbag has nothing on

after dance? (7)

23 Early trouble with the throat or back of a horse (5)

24 Final step taken at the

cobbler’s ball? (4,5) 26 Lover at home by morning, otherwise at Angourie Head (9) 27 Where Pat is found

maladroit (5) 28 Explosive doctrine, unacceptable to the Orientals (3)

29 Actor in decline ? (7,4)

Down:

1 Ice-casts as recast for very austere persons (8) 2 Prevented from hearing Ned feed a revolutionary (8) 3 Because of insecurity,

starts going to pieces (5) 4 Eastern politician bound

to be exhausted (7)

5 Hi, Paris is where the vessel’s making for (7)

6 Division by two, happily

(5,4)

7 Giving up selecting the

best players, we hear (6) 8 Giving no help to anyone

up the pole (6) 14 Macintosh, perhaps, but

not Macgregor ! (4-5) 16 Gloomy and depressed,

did some fishing (8) 17 How to bend iron round the opening - he’ll think of something ! (8) 19 Room containing ancient

bag (7)

20 I am bats about rice (7) 21 Way to write the words of

a play (6)

22 Element of a fellow

Latvian or Lithuanian (6) 25 Kicking the bucket and putting sticky end in the dent (5)