CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Collie’s paw getting entangled in a piece of bedlinen (10)

6. Mean to alter the last word (4)

10. Curtains and the like shifting, for sun’s moving around (4,11)

11. Meddle with one rent-free arrangement (9)

12. There’s nothing glum about such an influential person (5)

13. Haul mother in and reverse the compass (5)

15. It is thrice the crown that is the papal tiara (6)

19. Assigns class to the elementary school in America (6)

20. Was father that dries out (5)

23. A try an Academician has at the marketplace (5)

24. He does a good deal of cheating (4-5)

26. April meant rain – a change for him, being on Cromwell’s side (15)

27. Else they might be called launces (4)

28. Tired state shown by spineless around the East (10)

DOWN

1. May have been so fair at overtaking (7)

2. It’s for as long as one has vitality (8)

3. It is tender to lay before one (5)

4. Record, etc, that can be amended (9)

5. Polish one will do very well at (5)

7. How to cope with a scolding woman, having me around (6)

8. Settles comfortably with ten less moving about (7)

9. Bless ham that comes from the slaughterhouse (8)

14. A water tortoise might partner one (8)

16. Cover for cane is run adrift (9)

17. Formal composition in art: see it as being different (8)

18. Tread forcibly on and ram pelt into it (7)

21. Is reliant on having hurried up around the finish (7)

22. Herb is a reddish-brown horse (6)

24. Sopwith’s aircraft arrived at end of April (5)

25. Hindu mystic was confused, and I’m upset (5) THURSDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Develops 4. Spot 8. Lei 9. Cairo

10. Lip 11. Assists 12. Ruche 13. Exhalations 17. Humid 18. Tourist

20. Run 21. Inert 22. Ego 23. Ease 24. Smelting

Down 1. Dolman 2. Veins 3. Pains 5. Pelican 6. Topper 7. Tourniquet

9. Custard pie 14. Ximenes 15. Charge 16. Strong 18. Therm 19. Iceni