CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. English river with almost brick material (7)

5. Bug boy Nick finishes off like the plague (7) 9. Solstice, a night for dreaming? (9)

10. Organ broadcast as it’s played right at the end (5) 11. ‘Makes a bomb’ and tidies after one? (6,2)

12. Sort of hat gardener might use (6)

14. Preacher will go and name the letters to the Queen (9) 16. Smaller picture included in larger in the collection (5) 17. Restriction on a first motorway in being illuminated (5) 19. Bravery is everything when caught in gantry (9)

21. Take a policy out at home? Certainly! (6)

22. Being watchful, Virgil had no right to meet the worker (8) 26. Hail and farewell – Hawaii style! (5)

27. It holds things once train has been shunted (9) 28. Deceived by Kent in a different way (5,2)

29. Stage flats for part of the act on the railway (7)

DOWN

1. Company of mice endlessly portrayed in junior paper (5) 2. Dam up on the headland: it’s sheer lunacy! (7)

3. Where in France Nero is wrong for upper-class centre (5) 4. A colourful cover-up for age of calm u-turn (10)

5. It’s a storage building, except for the North (4) 6. Russian instrument found in a lab turned up by space dog (9) 7. They’ve just begun without any bad habits (7) 8. Woodwork gives fish the way in (9)

13. Diamonds: brain still needed to cut them (10)

14. Gad about and be attentive to ladies around four (9)

15. Be host and go in, anti-change (9)

18. Got wrong identification of Kim’s, too (7) 20. Undergoing instruction, he will enter Al form (7)

23. One Anne turned out to be senseless (5)

24. Sailor will dry right out, but he’s slow (5)

25. Body picture begins to be scandalous (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Traps 4. Escapes 8. Mohammedanism 10. Evert 11. Nape

12. Midi 16. Ended 17. Institutional 19. Gallows 20. Gable

Down: 1. Time-consuming 2. Ash 3. Summer 4. Eyelet 5. Charts

6. Privation 7. Something else 9. Appraisal 13. Merino 14. Odours

15. Idling 18. Nub