CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Is fastidious in taste of detail (10)

6. Some land in Israel at this port (4)

10. She’s greatly involved in French liaisons (6,9) 11. Cuddling me in return is invigorating (9)

12. Social class gets thrown east (5)

13. Take a picture of a young sprout (5)

15. Prayer of the Hunter around 5th August (6)

19. Coarse homespun cloth might be nothing less than tussore (6)

20. One fewer than forty of Buchan’s paces (5)

23. A 27 returns, stand-offish (5)

24. With a cup, heart can form a pappus (9)

26. College tuition is superior to schooling (6,9)

27. An idiot from Hereford or Kent (4)

28. Dominating influence can, say, end around 2nd October (10)

DOWN

1. Are they a little greedy, such animals? (7)

2. A guide to the ways motorists have (4-4)

3. God who produced rain around top of Deccan (5) 4. Unison am first to use, being of one mind (9) 5. Throughout the Golan transformation (5)

7. Cure is achieved by means of a pleasure voyage (6) 8. An essential part of fire, say (7)

9. Give us a corgi of becoming demeanour (8)

14. Furs felt different from fungi (8)

16. Between acts, it ruined let of it (9)

17. False belief in old use of it (8)

18. Computer went down: must be the card she used (7) 21. Is inflexibly cunning about rent-adjustment (7) 22. No, so more extended, no more (6) 24. Newspaper reporters are insistent (5)

25. Edible leafstalks or first fruit trees (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across:

1. Premonition 8. Romantic 9. Kite

10. Comet 13. Dear 16. Gulp 17. Land 18. Oyer 20. March 24. Even

25. Impetigo 26. Polystyrene

Down: 2. Rump 3. Mango 4. Noise 5. Irked 6. Greengrocer

7. Depredation 11. Minim 12. Tudor 14. Elan 15. Blue 19. Renal

21. Admit 22. Clear 23. Limn