THE BS CROSSWORD #3327

Across:

1 Remain on the bar stool, pickled, and do nothing? (3,5)

5 Scuttles a ship with a

cargo of wildfowl (6) 9 Pixie and col devastated this cricket team of cops (6,2)

10 Border leader in test of

clan (6)

12 There's uranium in many

a flower (5)

13 There would be universal

hostility if it came (6,3) 14 Get in boat tipsy (6) 16 Love blue? IQ internally diverges from the given course (7) 19 Hot, dry, I repaired the

gland (7)

21 Scoundrel difficult to sell

at auction (3,3)

23 Not lively, having been

injured brutally (9) 25 Annoy the top hostess in

the little restaurant! (5) 26 Banish the bandit (6) 27 Employing a couple of pages telling stories (8)

28 Leaves priest on duty

saddened initially (6) 29 Dad turns and indicates names for an office, perhaps (8)

Down:

1 Provision of a little drink

before you work (6)

2 Po or similar container in cases for the Louvre, in reserve (9)

3 Peruvian monarchs asserting their supremacy in case they are ousted (5)

4 There are half a dozen

sides to it (7)

6 Made better the last piece inside that had been shortened (9)

7 Do cattle salute at the

river-bend? (5)

8 Girl to sign for earnings

(8)

11 Singular phasing of the

moon ? (4) 15 A warning's a help as previously mentioned (9)

17 Contractor's offer is worth repetition apparently (9)

18 Staff on holiday - hence

delay (5,3)

20 There's an obligation to

pay tax (4)

21 Make bad purchase of

pet? (3,1,3)

22 Drops sound rules

made (6)

24 At ninety degrees to begin with, or hot for a change (5)

25 Small room with no

musical instrument (5)