CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

4/5

ACROSS

1. Speculated how confusing it was, etc, in having done tricks (11)

8. A test for car, or the car itself (5)

9. Part of camera closed when term fails to end (7)

10. To put one at risk, one must have limper potential (7)

11. Torment shows time that is past a city in America (5)

12. Finish off a bit of corn and make oneself popular (6)

14. Mother rating Elizabeth, in short (6)

18. Dog that is right with soldier to follow company (5)

19. Commercial traveller quietly painting return of animal catcher (7)

21. Such childish talk will quietly annoy one (7)

23. Admitted how we might have been with Don (5)

24. Takes in two directions with a pair of circle-makers (11)

DOWN

1. Sort of harvester to get together (7)

2. Scribbling block a composer might use? (7)

3. It’s wrong to get right between the Queen and the gold (5)

4. Lets us get routed by so sharp a struggle (6)

5. Plant composed of sticks that may get pied (7)

6. A little girl I have ahead when small (3)

7. Make haste, and one will almost injure the railway (5)

13. From the East, like one with a facial twitch (7)

15. Uses what’s necessary? (7)

16. Paces at length shown when good man goes on horseback (7)

17. Pour out right inside the vapour (6)

18. Manage, right at the end, to be one to deal in horses (5)

20. Pleasant smell it’s endlessly amoral to give up (5)

22. Wonderment always worries educational leaders (3)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Stopper 5. Patched 9. Estate car 10. Beret 11. Newel

12. Raindrops 13. Misinform 16. Swiss 17. Amuse 18. Confident

20. Dismissal 23. Fagin 25. Cling 26. Opportune 27. Digress

28. Respect

1. Sternum 2. On tow 3. Petulance 4. Recur 5. Persimmon

6. Tubed 7. Harmonise 8. Detests 14. Squashing 15. Occasions

16. Spitfires 17. Adduced 19. Tangent 21. Ingle 22. Leper

24. Gauze

Down: