Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. A fruity sort of cover-up (3,4)

5. Emotional bond with part PRO can form (7)

9. Took oneself some way off when cast dined out (9)

10. Tree sap it’s possible to rinse out (5)

11. Said Celt may have had regional speech variations (8)

12. Where to play around separately with part of the meal (6) 14. Is chosen to be romantical­ly attached (6,3)

16. She calls my brother Dad (5)

17. First good rose to come from a prickly shrub (5)

19. Disposed to go along with this sort of complaint (9)

21. Get in the right gear to take on staff (6)

22. To stop news being communicat­ed, kill all the lights (5,3) 26. Everybody gets part of the Bible to parcel out (5)

27. Flagon put out in the dry for an insect such as this (9)

28. A care he takes to make it painful to the listener (7)

29. Any role can be switched before much time has passed (5,2)

DOWN

1. Fellow, dead wrong, lost colour (5)

2. Postage was organised by the secret police (7)

3. One RA seen about to rub out what he’d drawn (5)

4. Is in confrontat­ion with somebody in a tete-á-tete? (4,2,4) 5. Be up to being taken for one by a cheat (4)

6. Len’s prone to upsetting the staff (9)

7. Remark how the old boy will start playing tennis (7)

8. With DTs, entrée has to be the easiest to chew (9)

13. Publicly announce how metal group was formed (10) 14. Separate things out in order to get grease (9)

15. Full of go, etc, one turns green (9)

18. Steady as career soldier can be (7)

20. In a stand-offish way that can fool layabout (7)

23. Group of singers can get rich with nothing (5)

24. Cheeky imposition, showing what to do with new clothes (3,2)

25. Not doing anything, but may have lied about it (4)

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