CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Advertising tune with a single rhyme (6)

4. Family doctor embracing everything and nothing will go full out (6)

9. Mother was bleeding, and couldn’t speak clearly (7)

10. Piece of bric-a-brac having us after it would be odd (5)

11. To have changed a dime is the same in Latin (4)

12. Practise boxing a bit of wood on board (4)

13. A girl’s got her dad to lose fat (3)

15. Show one’s weary of any change involving the West (4)

16. Getting the domestic animals back shows a bit of progress (4)

19. Centre would get by as her mate (3)

21. Indian corporal has a family back around him (4)

22. So one-man show will lose half of it (4)

24. The plaster goes haywire round top of studio (5)

25. Drums one politician ain’t rolling (7)

26. Not old enough, in law, to nag one about it (6)

27. Is sick of giving peacekeepers the oil supply (6)

DOWN

1. Leaving mark before report is giving one a false start

(7,3,3)

2. A Mini, yet to be produced to excess (7)

30/10

3. There’s nothing in three litres to lie about (4)

5. The exact way account is presented to a clergyman (8)

6. It may be a bit staggering to be left in it (5)

7. Triple, or pair: nothing else needed for that ‘I’ve got it’ air (13)

8. In fitting surroundings, do take it on as one’s own (5)

14. The one and only performance equal to a dying croak?

(8)

17. Pater, old boy, was subjected to a trial of will (7)

18. What a shame to include the East in one’s devoutness

(5)

20. No bus available to him when he’s at sea (5)

23. A concluding word for name-change (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Decorate 7. Spoor 8. Meander 9. Girdles 10. Lear

12. Diploma 14. Distaff 17. Grab 18. Discern 21. Neptune

22. Eaves 23. Blunders

Down: 1. Dimple 2. Charades 3. Ride 4. Turgid 5. Cool

6. Cresta 7. Scrapes 11. Planets 13. Overture 14. Dodged

15. Fennel 16. Abbess 19. Save 20. Open