DFA Cryptic Crossword

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across: -

1 Arbiter. 5 Empower. 9 Reign. 10 Custodian. 11 Bankrupt. 12 Breton. 14 Trot. 15 Ground zero. 18 Nauseating. 19 Isle. 22 Metric. 24 Unsought. 26 Numbering. 7 Prior.

28 Latrine. 29 Glasgow.

1 Acrobat.

2 Brian Boru. 3 Tundra. 4 Recuperate. 5 East.

6 Protrude.

7 Waist. 8 Run into. 13 Running gag. 16 Easy-going. 17 Beri-beri. 18 Nominal.

20 Eat crow. 21 Hoopla. 23 Tempt.

25 Kite.

ACROSS:-

1 Substitute part of the bridal party with space for spectators (8-4)

9 Backing for the head of union in Coptic culture (7)

10 Social centre behind tank (7)

11 A blow-gun’s blast into houses (9) 12 Watering hole is that sort of hole around the end of the street (5)

13 Penny has playboy partner to duck (5)

14 Hurried to impress with bad deed (9) 16 Bay made little journey’s end in a very poor way (9)

18 Body with limbs removed, under doctor’s orders (5)

20 Tree flourishing around pole or log (5) 22 Nearly let off for all time (9) 24 Wash-out with the boundless utility of language (7)

25 Model mixing cereal and syrup (7) 26 Scallions jump over charged particles (6,6)

DOWN:-

1 Flash electric ray one step below the first (9)

2 Primate hugging agitated apes to calm them (7)

3 The same party included a cousin of the Addams (5)

4 Design scenery as required (9) 5 Prospered with trendy fruit (4,3)

6 Done with Tory leader in public (5) 7 Muddled headed or tender and sickly (6)

8 Fished on a slope (6)

14 Fusing together and dries long sections (9)

15 Lets cider befuddle vagrants (9) 16 Comfortable with a tormenter (2,4) 17 Made it rain after launch of Molotov cocktail (7)

18 Fruit with the taste and pith of melon (7)

19 Cattle cover the extremely young in gas (6)

21 March quietly in support of public transport (5)

23 Threatened to keep what’s consumed (5)