10-Minute Crossword
1 Light afternoon meal (3) 2 Army colour (5) 3 Highly-original, influential, etc. (7) 4 Counting frame (6) 5 Rubber (6) 7 Calamities (9) 8 Suggests as a candidate (9) 12 Slim (7) 14 Fine strand or filament (6) 15 Patron saint of Scotland (6) 17 Any object (5) 20 Toddler (3) 1 Abreast of the prank, having risen early (2,4,3,4) 10 Want empty container to make one's mouth water (5) 11 Clear ring and platform (9) 12 Note a catalogue in an artistic style (10) 13 Breach charter (4) 15 Trashy and bashful without rum (6) 16 Confine to items from the core list (8) 18 Gorilla swallowed cat, perhaps it was a craving! (8) 20 Fill with fear about can opener being like hen's teeth? (6) 23 Gamble with obsolete currency (4) 24 Gave approval for those seceding or separating (10) 27 Tries to interrupt physical preparation (9) 28 Varied tax rate, but not at surplus (5) 29 Scoring music is not a chorister's work (13) Across: - 1 Hopscotch. 6 Sum up. 9 Deliver. 10 Slogger. 11 Correspondence. 13 Refill. 14 First aid. 17 Assessor. 19 Sampan. 22 Standing orders. 25 Oregano. 26 Brigade. 27 Doyen. 28 Freemason. 2 Pantomime performance lacked the dame's heart and spice (7) 3 Crony pinned identification to cow (10) 4 Good-looking becomes plain, if a cool head is swapped for hot (6) 5 The godly go about retreat in good faith (8) 6 Handed down port (4) 7 Peers treated court with honour (7) 8 Minute amount to fill the hours before noon (4) 9 In the end, ran counter, in some way, to dreamy tune (8) 14 Record composition for cornet and rattle (10) 15 Races of seafront holidaymakers (8) 17 Hates its solution for unbelievers (8) 19 Mince then consumed by the average cat (7) 21 Recipe designed to stir round (7) 22 Take heart from well-liked tree (6) 25 Dull poet has turned up (4) 26 For every person to lead inside church (4) Down: - 1 Hide. 2 Pull off. 3 Coveralls. 4 Thrash. 5 Historic. 6 Scold. 7 Magenta. 8 Portending. 12 Broadsword. 15 Stand firm. 16 Round off. 18 Slavery. 20 Perhaps. 21 Gobble. 23 Drawn. 24 Mean. 1 Removal of some lymphatic tissue from the throat (13) 10 Table for religious sacrifices (5) 11 Television, radio and the press (4,5) 12 Lover (10) 13 Core of a plant stem (4) 15 Solution of sodium chloride (6) 16 Illegal (8) 18 Pampered (8) 20 Suppress or cut publications or films (6) 23 Show the way (4) 24 Chemical processes in the body (10) 27 Swearword (9) 28 First compartment of a cow's stomach (5) 29 Lack of agreement or compatibility (13) Across: - 1 Ancestral. 6 Podia. 9 Torsion. 10 Disgust. 11 Scatterbrained. 13 Dieter. 14 Ironclad. 17 Artesian. 19 Arctic. 22 Irreconcilable. 25 Trefoil. 26 Thimble. 27 Catty. 28 Annoyance. 2 Porridge (7) 3 Examiner of votes at an election (10) 4 Supple (6) 5 Sanctify, cherish (8) 6 Domesticated (4) 7 Part of the body between the stomach and chest (7) 8 Lowest musical voice (4) 9 First university degree (8) 14 Hippodrome (10) 15 Commonly, though perhaps incorrectly, named (2-6) 17 Study of heredity (8) 19 Hone, whet (7) 21 To do with earthquakes (7) 22 Military trainees (6) 25 Patch, repair (4) 26 Leading male role (4) Down: - 1 Ante. 2 Coracle. 3 Shiftless. 4 Runner. 5 Ladybird. 6 Pasta. 7 Diurnal. 8 Autodidact. 12 Idealistic. 15 Normality. 16 Magnolia. 18 Torrent. 20 Taliban. 21 Piston. 23 Crony. 24 Here.