CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1. Joplin then showed how to use block for pedestal (6)

8. The way one takes it out in religious education (5)

9. Joint could with luck be put out in knee endlessly (7)

11. ‘Butter’ might be a treat for insect to swallow (8)

12. Fine plaster in rug to be shaken out (5)

15. A right to take possession of the spleen (4)

16. What bees produce in a temper (3)

17. Fish will tremble with head removed (4)

19. Blubber at a bit of dust (5)

21. Going over of work concerning one’s ability to see (8)

24. Flower posy, say, gone to pieces (7)

25. Long for about five-acre distribution (5)

26. Given the push, being elbowed out? (6)

DOWN

2. Passenger craft may lie around with the Navy (5)

3. After the serenade, once it moves round the turn? (8)

4. A term for a small beer (4)

5. Bubbles on top for changing that, at leaving (5)

6. It will soften sound for one who can’t speak (4)

7. Old paper size made army lose halves (4)

10. The raising of a drawing by an architect (9)

12. The bog-myrtle gives one a lot of wind (4)

13. One to work with crook, he’s turned to her in palladium (8)

14. Part of cap one finds at mountaintop (4)

18. Scot’s plate he’s about to get in at (5)

20. Don’t go on putting one last in lawsuit (5)

21. Hurt ankle in a stack of hay (4)

22. Meat left in a sieve always sticks (4)

23. Fate in Scandinavia, neither being alternative to the North (4)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Allowed 5. Reduced 9. Generator 10. Inner 11. Ranch

12. Delighted 13. Desirable 16. Heard 17. Broke 18. Tenements

20. Underhand 23. Wince 25. Timid 26. Interpret 27. Run-down

28. Mishear

Down: 1. Angered 2. Linen 3. Workhorse 4. Dated 5. Rural dean

6. Doing 7. Constrain 8. Derided 14. Swordsman 15. Battalion

16. Homewards 17. Bluster 19. Shelter 21. Radio 22. Datum

24. Nerve - "

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. State of mind 8. Earnest 9. Smile 10. Tear 11. Lunatic

12. Die 13. Oboe 15. Turn 17. Sly 19. Fragile 20. Aqua 23. Ashen 24. In a word 25. Guesstimate

Down: 1. Sleuth 2. Aorta 3. Ever 4. Futile 5. Insanity 6. Drifter 7. Coerce

12. Defiance 14. Bear hug 16. Affair 17. Series 18. Waddle 21. Quota

22. Taxi

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