CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Yesterday’s solution (15,449) ACROSS: 1 Trimmed. 5 Adrift. 9 Buckram. 10 Paste-up. 11 Cad. 12 Jabberwocky. 13 Owned. 14 Strike pay. 16 Shareware. 17 Eclat. 19 Hummingbird. 22 Nun. 23 Basmati. 24 Artiste. 26 Schema. 27 Sunlamp.

DOWN: 1 Tobacco. 2 Incidental music. 3 Mar. 4 Demob. 5 Apple tree. 6 Resow. 7 French Polynesia. 8 Spryly. 12 Judge. 14 Shangri-La. 15 Knead. 16 Sahibs. 18 Tense up. 20 Image. 21 Imams. 25 Ton.

ACROSS

1 Fool, I lie about a collection of

laws (12) 8 Revel in eluding flies (7) 9 Wasted hours in making up

feed (7) 11 Liaison in which nothing’s

happening? (4,6) 12 Platoon leader unwell? This

may help (4) 14 Poetic singer lost her mobile

after tango (8) 16 Made up one number in

school (6) 17 Woman ignoring last boy (3) 19 The noughties supplied an

ample amount (6) 21 Rude jokes tease 17 working

on line (8) 24 It’s very dark in Kentucky (4) 25 Fierce Greek woman and French writer make cheese (10) 27 Present for each class (7) 28 Trendy drivers‚ display left

nearer the front (1,2,4) 29 He’ll tweet Bob at work?

That’s unfair (5,3,4)

DOWN

1 Stiff old man carried by speleologist (7) 2 An old girl’s designed symbol

to identify bucks (6,4) 3 Men stopping this aerial stunt

would create brawl (4,4) 4 Frank’s auxiliary verbs (6) 5 Time to show friendship to

criminal? (4) 6 View round wing (7) 7 Article in wood is perhaps originally an elusive thing (4-1-3-4) 10 Punch is passed round lido,

stirred for tourist (12) 13 Address partly confused

Naomi and me (6,4) 15 Head of plant extremely

lucky to leave early (3) 18 Girls suppress society scandal (8) 20 Source of wood, old gnarled

teak cut by engineers (3,4) 22 He abandons course to start

again at Twickenham (7) 23 Do last three members

resign from board? (6) 26 The same party lost bird (4)