New Zealand Listener

CROSSWORD

- by David Tossman

Clues across

1. Team leader requested and was given a mission (6) 4. Talk as opposed to poetry (8) 10. Tanneries managed seriously (2,7) 11. This Marx is elegant and stylish with nothing on (5) 12. Remove the top from some dairy produce, say (5) 13. Cue age-old rendition of the commandmen­ts (9) 14. Runner makes mess of the tale (7) 16. The morning everybody returned for a beast (5) 19. It is terribly refined taking Sunday for a light bender (5) 21. Doubtful character infected about 100 (7) 23. Cooking oil, in fact, is fabricated (9) 25. Some have no misgivings revealing malice (5) 26. Poles grab gold with a steamy hot rock arrangemen­t (5) 27. Actor isn’t playing a fraudster (3,6) 28. He offers to be more sensitive (8) 29. The mourner wailing is more enthusiast­ic (6)

Clues down

1. The judges in brutal breakout (8) 2. A pet shows distressin­gly where workers are ill-used (9) 3. Brat is decapitate­d by mistake (5) 5. Topical production of a light nature (7) 6. Remain undecided as everybody comes back in new active arrangemen­t (9) 7. Repenting for having to devastate German capital (5) 8. Turned over hefty book on erectile dysfunctio­n then made an excessive show of the joys and sorrows (6) 9. Hawk rises in airfield departure (6) 15. Exclude man I managed to get into the aristocrac­y (9) 17. Care causes a certain amount of stress I hear (9) 18. A sword I am plunging into pathetic racist (8) 20. Bloke with lace fashioned to show restraint (7) 21. Like seawater: with seal in swimming around (6) 22. Make up away from the movie location (6) 24. Central Manchurian national is an agitator (5) 25. Against ever changing an energetic style (5)

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