City Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1 Furious old Peruvian family?

(12)

8 Plant seeds around new home

one way or another (7)

9 Sing about one current wine

(7)

11 Role Pinter directed in ‘The

Uninvited Guest’? (10)

12 Video motor racing leaders in

Le Mans (4)

14 Sailors see round National Theatre, their minds elsewhere (8)

16 ‘Hospital holds record!’ as its

catchphras­e? (6)

17 She joins society in the Bois

de Boulogne (3)

19 Slight margins ultimately

cover it (6)

21 Number 1 Across managed to

produce stupor (8)

24 Standard choice of letters (4)

25 Backing large number helps

milk producers (10)

27 Some salad and roast cutlet

eaten first (7)

28 Bar in centre reveals rust (7)

29 Top officer’s wasted off-site

cutting rubbish (5,2,5)

DOWN

1 Crudely, it means they’re

behind bars (7)

2 Clearly Cuba’s there only after

changing (10)

3 Neologism describes large

work by Dvorak (3,5)

4 Abstain from nearly all cheese

grated by women (6)

5 Trim round container (4)

6 Granny meets top man in

Chinese city (7)

7 Like buccaneer briefly on Scottish isle, lost but hopeful (12)

10 My tum seems in knots – this

should protect me (6,6)

13 Adult caught in a milk bar,

drunk, taken off in this? (5,5)

15 Money turns up under tree in

Alderney (3)

18 What heckler does in private

quarters? (8)

20 Extend period of imprisonme­nt (7)

22 Fast bowler on? That brings

extra benefit (4-3)

23 Wild duck conserves kinetic

energy to cope (4,2)

26 Cross borne by brave lumberjack when climbing (4)

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