TELEGRAPH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 A drudge mistakenly offered

protection (7)

5 About eleven, processed a

tube making ore (7)

9 ‘Provide everything that is required’, she quipped in part (5)

10 Agreed on a fizzy drink (9) 11 Outline of house with title

removed (10)

12 Facility backed consuming

European meat (4)

14 One who later became a saint

suffering four assaults (4,2,6) 18 Looked likely to come down in

Canaan (8,4)

21 Copyright on mouthpiece cut

(4)

22 In record time, one performing

duet shows incompetence (10) 25 Make material corroded (9) 26 Easy to digest and easy to carry?

(5)

27 Style on top sailors share (4,3) 28 Almost certainly genuine, but

bizarre (7)

Down

1 So dull on the outside but oily (6) 2 Eagle I left in the water (6)

3 Scripts regularly sent up in support

of qualification? That’s tactful (10) 4 Doctor single small creature (5)

5 Fit blue plastic around gold – lovely

(9)

6 Egg obtained from four geese (4)

7 To some extent at home before a

hearing perhaps (2,1,5)

8 See good girl in monocle (8) 13 Aspirin maybe needed by father with trendy person who takes life seriously? (10)

15 Stay in bed, stay to prepare for

ambush (3,2,4)

16 This heat is clearly defined (8) 17 Thus one in chain possibly is fond

of others’ company (8)

19 Girl disheartened during month in

forest (6)

20 Pulse taken by lady shortly going

round hospital department (6) 23 Reporters bear down (5)

24 Element found by Zulu in chapter

(4)