CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Bung an old shilling on the hat (7)
5. Mended by a chap Ted organised (7)
9. Vehicle providing crate with seat somehow (6,3)
10. Cap re-entered in the wager (5)
11. Stairway post isn’t old: the Spanish finish it (5) 12. Shower components and drains PRO put out (9)
13. Tell one the wrong things for a young lady to hear in class (9) 16. European as the Robinson family? (5)
17. A Clio, say, to divert one (5)
18. Self-assured, tell secret – not to get disheartened (9)
20. The ‘outing’ of a batsman upset Sis in gloomy circumstances (9)
23. Oliver’s wicked mentor had a cigarette when at home (5)
25. Hang on tight to clothing, hot and bothered without it (5)
26. It’s a convenient time to switch pop, or get instrument to pitch (9)
27. Wander off the subject and delve with wardress who lost half (7)
28. Stick to the rules spectre has broken (7) DOWN
1. Back of boat usually masks beginnings of the breastbone (7) 2. Being given a hitch mechanically to own it’s different (2,3) 3. Domestic animal you soundly spear through pique (9) 4. Again happen to be among the precursors (5)
5. The date-plum shows I’m approaching a thousand in person (9) 6. Like a pipe? You, in France, go to bed (5)
7. Sing agreeably with the damage one is entered by (9) 8. Loathes half-made trials (7)
14. Flattening a fruit-drink with a mixture of spirit (9)
15. Gives rise to sins compounded with cocoa (9)
16. Old fighters one tips up and sacks (9)
17. Dad, mis-cued, brought it forward in discussion (7) 19. Touching line from brown gentleman, in short (7)
21. Where the fire is at home to non-u glue (5)
22. Social outcast to repel from bottom to top (5)
24. Slight, open fabric of the A-Z with half the guests (5)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
Across: 1. Rival 4. Harbour 8. Contradiction 10. Exert 11. Tidy 12. Tang
16. Brine 17. Time after time 19. Derange 20. Toyed
Down: 1. Recapitulated 2. Van 3. Larder 4. Hedged 5. Recite 6. Originate
7. Running to seed 9. Midsummer 13. Obtain 14. Little 15. Secret 18. Icy