SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 The rats destroyed what you wore in summer (5-3)

5 Meat and stuff taken back in a basket (6) 9 Turns a blind eye, you assume, to the icecreams brought round (8)

10 From behind, is like a bird (6)

12 Not liable, from me, to get back a point (6)

13 I need time to think: remove this blindfold (3,2,3)

15 What the wise corn merchant deals in, if he has any nous? (5,2,5)

18 The postcard legally allowed to be on sale? (8,4)

23 Appear superior to, when you browse through (4,4)

24 Remember to bring home (6)

26 “Before the many brave had fallen” is word for word (6)

27 Discerns, or pretends to (5,3)

28 Swam round the fish, angry (6)

29 It’s sprung from the rug onto the hair (8)

DOWN

1 That’s the bag he held in “The Outcast” (6) 2 The fleeing contrabandist? (6)

3 A beater? That’s a lie! (7)

4 Give the impression a number will get a tip (4)

6 Supposes it’s got us involved in a mess of some sort (7)

7 Be very keen to capture the wild seal, which is delightful (8)

8 Caused to be translated (8)

11 Turn back at a quarter to five to meet the sweetheart (7)

14 They could spoil a sea trip in more ways than one! (7)

16 Completely win the heart of a Cockney Romeo (4,4)

17 About one’s studies, naturally (2,6)

19 It’s a job to get the boy in to write a composition (7)

20 It’s high time at the end of the day to have a break (7)

21 Also trained, myself, to be a dancer (6) 22 Does as Thatcher doesn’t and criticises! (6)

25 Said I’d gone off to Georgia, but it’s just a story (4)