CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Plunder to find out how old solid medicament is (7)
5. A fitchet will lope around with a feline (7)
9. Former wife might cable it, getting easily worked up (9)
10. A grown male will leave the fruit (5)
11. Direct one’s course to the young ox (5)
12. Fighting with Lew, string it out (9)
13. Tommy Atkins engaged by King Edward as a plunderer of enemy ships (9)
16. Put faith in a 23 this for one’s investment (5)
17. First trader to blend teas with this flavour (5)
18. Did one’s brains, thought hard, and was beaten (9)
20. Crams hair into the fauteuils (9)
23. Strong material for body representing the workers (5)
25. Upset the liquid, and this will carry the flame (5)
26. Space traveller who turns to AA perhaps (9)
27. Make turncoat act to a piece of music (7)
28. Go down for change of scene between one day and another (7)
DOWN
1. Exercise that journalists take up (5-2)
2. It’s a cruel way of making money (5)
3. Take it in turns to change the ante maybe (9)
4. More power to what’s crooked! (5)
5. Had rather seen how quietly the referee went wrong (9)
6. Fifty-one on the motorway? It is as fast as one can go (5)
7. Unceasing, the way it has lain: count it out (9)
8. It may strike one that one was using one’s brain (7)
14. He can’t sleep in casino, Monsieur, like this (9)
15. Mexican dish Ena, a child, can prepare (9)
16. Quivering mouse not quite truly moving about (9)
17. In conveyance, rat isn’t to be disturbed (7)
19. It signified how it was done and finished by Edward (7)
21. Turkish sweet has some lethal value (5)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
Across: 1. Satin 4. Erratic 8. Accreditation 10. Limbo 11. Nark 12. Lift
16. Tiara 17. Thunder-clouds 19. Respond 20. Cones
Down: 1. Station-master 2. Tic 3. Needle 4. Enigma 5. Reason
6. Trickling 7. Conductresses 9. Curlicues 13. Studio 14. Hatred
15. Garlic 18. Urn