CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8. Horse taken from the main pool (8)

9. Get away from peace’s confusion (6)

10. Showing when sell-by is marked? (4-7)

11. Pummel one with a bit of a lie (3)

13. Gem weight found in limo at the end (5)

15. A national version of the Turkish tongue (9)

17. In which the fighting ‘stinks’? (8,7)

19. Doing of what one’s told can be done, ice having shifted (9)

21. Apart from it being a remark made to the audience (5)

23. It takes a long time to mature (3)

24. Extinguishing but busting nothing about it (8,3)

27. Physician with one Florentine family (6)

28. Disorders and serves to rearrange it (8)

DOWN

1. Baal put out money around a gourd (8)

2. The only fish Dover has? (4)

3. Following eight in North about, or quitting (5)

4. In which to write ideas of hackneyed reserve (11,4)

5. Let a slice of it be heavenly (9)

6. Perform a piece of legislation (3)

7. The most favourable points to map one out (6)

12. Hoodwinks about fifty experts (6)

14. Hostile fleet will provide a District Attorney with weapons (6)

16. A crank from the centre, one cc adrift (9)

18. Is again uncertain of the fieldworks (8)

20. A sound caller in the army (6)

22. It is multiplied by a newspaper (5)

25. Shag suffers a deep cut (4)

26. Mine is the way to remove olive stones (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across: 1. Tacit 4. Bencher 8. Materialistic

10. Ensue 11. Army 12. Etui 16. Obese 17. Transposition 19. Liturgy

20. Toyed

Down: 1. Temperamental 2. Cat 3. Termed 4. Brassy 5. Nailed

6. Hottentot 7. Reconditioned 9. Combatant 13. Dowser 14. Memory

15. Depict 18. Ivy