Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS 1. Sort of flat cake to burn in battle (7)

5. The price is less as one was on a slimming diet (7)

9. Isn’t our double-duck responsibl­e for it being infamous? (9) 10. Ditties Solomon wrote the Song of (5)

11. Picture how it would be to have given sea a miss (8)

12. Rest, then put the question again (6)

14. Lost hope of making the pairs, indeed (9)

16. Incites one to be in wartime women’s service (5)

17. Sign of cold, for a change, on the street (5)

19. Newspaper leader with detail Rio provided (9)

21. Hold out for the next version editor is about to make (6) 22. Alienate one who gets near in error (8)

26. Heath scattered over one acre (5)

27. Its intricate windings by hilt ran amok (9)

28. Where surgeon works at getting in there (7)

29. Signs on if one listens by mistake (7) DOWN 1. Drinking spree may be had with gin (5)

2. Those born to a place sent via a diversion (7)

3. Monsters coming out of the gorse (5)

4. Kent dragon turned to beds full of flowers (4,6)

5. Got up with a rambler, it could be (4)

6. Wild ruffian with a turn of speed on the road perhaps (9) 7. Bring comfort to one at the organ key-desk (7) 8. Distributi­on of pearls Sid arranged (9)

13. May be allowed to miss one blade out (10)

14. It’s not the same for the eft, friend can work out (9) 15. A servant must be neat, and TT (9)

18. Not much chance of being in the garden (7)

20. Team’s time at the wicket, sinning from first to last (7) 23. In the country, in particular Uruguay, it turns up (5) 24. Moral significan­ce of those that are changed by it (5) 25. Successful athlete at college may be indecent (4)

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