CRYPTIC Crossword

PICTURE CLUES

10ac, 22dn, 24 & 23ac

ACROSS

2 You can listen to it while on a promenade, dude ( 7) 7 Overseas experience with King George creates a monster (4)

8 Post PC? Sure for the brochure of the institution (10)

9 Patient ate out with a drink (4) 10 Carson comes up with another TV series (6)

13 You wouldn’t want this to be an ‘udder’ failure (5,3) 15 Bagel in tinker’s lunchbox contains jelly substance ( 7)

16 Be guyed, perhaps, and look astonished (3- 4) 20 On Saturday, ask and wait for the symbol (8) 23 See 22 Down

24 See 22 Down

25 See Ava stagger which makes things worse (10) 27 Phrenologist returned with solo effort (4)

28 Being compliant, the tax was topped up I heard ( 7)

DOWN

1 An excursion to the old river (4)

2 Working parties roping off the river sport course (5,3) 3 Diet owl changed when water was at its nadir (3,4) 4 Strange, emu is back with large breakfast cereal (6) 5 Will nanny pot me for dodging the bill? (3,7)

6 ... on a horse you can get for a buck (6) 11 Associate in Engineering gets 5 for the little street (3) 12 Is arranged in groups?

That is confidential (10) 14 Wieldy, but get married oddly (3)

15 Fuel comes from Georgia on the sabbath (3)

17 Have Paul around to create a riot (8)

18 Two Greek letters were about the bird (3)

19 Cling to the bar and wait a bit (4,3)

21 In Zimbabwe a poniard is used as arm (6)

22dn, 24 & 23ac Mufti hat Hamilton changed because of heatwave, mother (2,4,4,3,3)

26 Heavens! She left for this bloke (4)