10-Minute Crossword
1 A low (3) 2 Bacon slice (6) 3 Note group (6) 4 In recent times (6) 5 Sample (8) 6 Comic (8) 8 Supporter of a monarchy (8) 9 Erudite (4-4) 12 Skin condition (6) 13 Unauthorised school absentee (6) 14 Sausage in a roll (3,3) 19 Lettuce (3) 1 Game to skip whisky (9) 6 Close university during depression (3,2) 9 Free to survive during radical comeback (7) 10 Second lumberjack is a hard hitter (7) 11 Letters of agreement (14) 13 Umpire indisposed to give a second charge (6) 14 Help when craft is adrift at sea (5,3) 17 Inspector Morse's decapitated figure found behind plank (8) 19 Almost identical vessel to an oriental boat (6) 22 Rules for assembly of brothers who refuse to take a seat? (8,6) 25 Mineral to go round an odoriferous plant (7) 26 Troops ordered to stash gear (7) 27 Spanish gentleman accommodated the old-fashioned and the most senior one (5) 28 Lodge member to change forenames (9) Across: - 1 Cross-purposes. 10 Ricotta. 11 Disease. 12 Canonical. 13 Retro. 14 Stiffs. 16 Preacher. 19 Specimen. 20 Strafe. 23 Empty. 25 Alligator. 27 Know-all. 28 Traduce. 29 Come to nothing. 1 Leather mask (4) 2 Do the trick to push on, but in reverse (4,3) 3 Comprehensive protection concluded during telephone conversations (9) 4 Make mincemeat of, but refuse to keep hot (6) 5 Celebrated coming first in choir performance (8) 6 Bawl out with sore head and respiratory infection (5) 7 Red master kept spy under cover (7) 8 Pointing to wine running out (10) 12 Women's promise is a weapon of old (10) 15 Cope with concern, but don't waver (5,4) 16 Put the finishing touches when eighteen holes high? (5,3) 18 Drooling, perhaps, over bondage (7) 20 Piano played with E sharp, for all one knows (7) 21 Wolf may sound like a turkey (6) 23 Lured by the haggard (5) 24 Have in mind to be narrow-minded (4) Down: - 2 Recondite. 3 Satin. 4 Plaice. 5 Red alert. 6 Observant. 7 Enact. 8 Braces. 9 Velour. 15 Fairy tale. 17 Heartburn. 18 Seraglio. 19 Sheikh. 21 Earned. 22 Blotto. 24 Photo. 26 Gnash. 1 Hereditary (9) 6 Lecturers' platforms (5) 9 Twisting force (7) 10 Revulsion (7) 11 Empty-headed, madcap (14) 13 One who regulates his food intake (6) 14 Inflexible, entrenched (8) 17 Type of well that flows under internal pressure (8) 19 Near the North Pole (6) 22 Uncompromisingly incompatible (14) 25 Three-lobed leaf (7) 26 Sewer's finger protector (7) 27 Spiteful, malicious (5) 28 Vexation (9) Across: - 1 Sportsmanship. 10 Lunatic. 11 Truffle. 12 Innermost. 13 Carve. 14 Grumpy. 16 Adherent. 19 Chastity. 20 Annual. 23 Tooth. 25 Mechanism. 27 Extrude. 28 Outline. 29 Accident-prone. 1 Poker stake (4) 2 Irish boat made of hides (7) 3 Lazy, lacking ambition (9) 4 Athlete in a race (6) 5 Small, brightly-coloured beetle (8) 6 Noodles (5) 7 Active during the day (7) 8 Self-taught individual (10) 12 Starry-eyed, Utopian (10) 15 Ordinariness (9) 16 Small tree cultivated for its pink or purple flowers (8) 18 Violent flood (7) 20 Fundamentalist Islamic group of Afghanistan (7) 21 Part moving back and forth in an engine's cylinder (6) 23 Intimate friend (5) 24 In this place (4) Down: - 2 Peninsula. 3 Rotor. 4 Sector. 5 Altitude. 6 Scutcheon. 7 Infer. 8 Flying. 9 Defect. 15 Patchouli. 17 Erudition. 18 Stampede. 19 Cutlet. 21 Limpet. 22 Accost. 24 Optic. 26 Astir.