CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
no 1,246
Across Down
For today’s solutions, text CLUE followed by the clue (eg: ‘CLUE 1 Down’) to 53307 1 Short time around Ireland in song to find sheep (6).
5 Cooked pimentos, looking after one’s own (8).
9 Paint alone, refreshed like this Italian (10).
10 Spill beans twice and get jail in US (4).
11 Notice in sunlit era tight-lipped highbrows (8).
12 Provider with possibly shady sideline (6).
13 Worthless centre of operations (4).
15 Make taller boating crew enter for women only (8).
18 Make busy one run slowly around ring for vegetable (8). 19 Engage with yours truly and call for quiet (4).
21 Graduate’s nervous reaction to gum (6).
23 Want fish? So irritating! (8).
25 Unshaken tree yields plum at last (4).
26 Curb close bonding, pouring in again (10).
27 Design it in glass, to an extent for firing (8).
28 Workshy one around ship is person noted for achievement (6). 2 Well, though not at either end, give out endless fragrant gum (5). 3 A tool for enforcing (9).
4 With smarm, is able to provide one for lubrication (3,3).
5 Lacking official status, be that as it may (15).
6 Nice damp swimming creates public scare (8).
7 Did examination again in return for disabling weapon (5). 8 Unconscious for no reason (8).
14 Claim becoming older is getting mean (9).
16 Slim host I employed for preachers (9).
17 Agreement with one for musical pieces (8).
20 Meadow provided sustenance as a plant in season (6). 22 Rhythms for one chasing part-timer (5).
24 Facetious marriage getting ring in snout (5).