CRYPTIC CLUES

2016-07-02 -

ACROSS

21 Assumed it is to wear (3,2) 24 Am clear out of burnt sugar

(7) 28 No opposition (3) 29 Complain over a record made

for the trade (9) 10 Learns about the French

doctors (7) 11 Excitement about a single step

(5) 13 Alternative accepted by such

poor singers (6) 15 Shoots out from hiding (6) 18 Black mole (5) 19 The agony of men in the wrong

(7) 21 The means I contrived to

control the sail (9) 23 Fish found in creels (3) 24 Popped the question after

work but not accepted (7) 25 A class given instruction (5)

DOWN

01 Possibly spy on fashionable

medium (7) 02 Throw a fight and have

sleepless night? (4,5) 03 Out of panic he sought a quiet

corner (5) 04 A course curtailed and altered

for a singer (6) 05 Winds up with part of a film on

crime (5,2) 06 Slice of tomato lying on the

floor (3) 07 A better bed (5) 12 Fear arrest (9) 14 Sly Sue’s destroyed Joyce’s

character (7) 16 He makes payment for various

letters (7) 17 Be there to give service (6) 18 Sort of plane needed to carry

an elephant? (5) 20 Allowance cut in proportion (5) 22 One politician is a

mischiefmaker (3)