CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8. Oh, Bono starts off another singer in Oahu (8)

9. Turn to tear it out (6)

10. To get one used to malice, cat is let loose (11)

11. Code number has its point (3)

13. An arrangement to meet and hold court on the street (5)

15. Old actor phones their part in dendrochronology (4,5)

17. One who protects the environment, and rests in vocation that’s different (15)

19. A preserve made with alarm maybe (9)

21. Soft drink available in the theatre bar (5)

23. Duration of life starts as generation ends (3)

24. Has got it taped ahead of time (11)

27. For example, in a lot of variations it is played smoothly (6)

28. Evensong has ING in it (8)

DOWN

1. At end of musical entertainment, The Ring, or the Emperor (8) 2. Trifle with a fruit dessert (4)

3. Treatise that cum laude gets maximum praise (5)

4. Car rusts: demands treatment with edible seedlings (7,3,5) 5. Restaurant has got mixed support (9)

6. Greek goddess turned up with the militant Basque separatists (3)

7. A series that can get tied up in knots (6)

12. A meal at home nerd is upset about (6)

14. It is sound till an open magic formula is found (6)

16. Restaurant where there’s space closely to question the starter (5,4)

18. Defers the way one uses money around us (8)

20. He’ll range around lake with his rod and line (6)

22. Incise a line of musical writing (5)

25. It’s a turnaround for the weakest in the litter (4)

26. Saying something that’s cutting (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across: 1. Fable 4. Distaff 8. Lexicographer

10. Roses 11. Fast 12. Once 16. Route 17. Impressionist 19. Gardens

20. Minor

Down: 1. Fellow-feeling 2. Box 3. Encore 4. Digest 5. Sparse

6. Adherents 7. Fortune-hunter 9. Distemper 13. Grieve 14. Curses

15. Reform 18. Ion