CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Of yore, tripos was held to be an accumulation of knowledge (10)

6. A class will begin to take shape (4)

10. Later end telling of how he opposed empire-building (6,9)

11. Tory, being skilled, spoke with one (9)

12. Mark a score that’s not applicable to church (5)

13. Spare parts of a barbed fish-fork (5)

15. Annul it, but fail to follow suit (6)

19. Crop is destroyed when suffering the itch (6)

20. Fisherman may be at a loss with such a group (5)

23. A way to speak to doctor when breaking the law (5)

24. Abusive language one may vet in vice, sort of (9)

26. Don’t skirt the issue: be the dominant partner (4,3,8)

27. Cart in enclosed area has to be reversed (4)

28. To get the seam right, a net’s got to be adjusted (10)

DOWN

1. Lieutenant cries about the old widows (7)

2. One granted exclusive right to tape teen version of it (8)

3. Find the answer to love’s entanglement (5)

4. One in charge of funds may rue arrest he made (9)

5. Dig one right up lf it’s unbending (5)

7. Something curious about toy did appear (6)

8. One demonstrating motorway to a bowyer (7)

9. Napkin in use with a small metal cup (8)

14. Is determined to reuse lot of it (8)

16. Depravity saver might put the other way round (4,5)

17. Something that happens to detectives in net thrown round it (8)

18. Having a gift, may finish with bills outstanding (7)

21. Disloyalty of star one is upset by (7)

22. Such fruit being fingered, one is all thumbs (6)

24. It is awkward to be so silly (5)

25. Cheer-leader took a breather and held on tight (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Press 4. Holiday 8. International

10. Where 11. Earl 12. Both 16. Omega 17. Undergraduate 19. Earnest

20. Takes

Down 1. Primogeniture 2. Eat 3. Shrewd 4. Heated 5. Loiter 6. Dangerous

7. Yellowhammers 9. Surrender 13. Source 14. Secret 15. Bandit 18. Auk