Crossword

MORE CROSSWORDS IN TABLOID!

ACROSS

1 When my speech is written, they should mark my words (8,6)

10 Charlie dances about following parking for reduced rate (4-5)

11 Fine old instrument used to make glass (5)

12 Labour carrying in loud chef’s essential item? (7)

13 Note that one may leave quickly after hanky-panky (4-2) 15 Boyhood’s occasionally misplaced, coming from east London area (4)

17 Vacant sty pens worried pet chicken (7-3)

18 Tense and bitter after arrest (4-6)

20 Amber nectar insect’s found by river (4)

22 Loves wearing different red suits, plus spectacles for a spell (6)

23 A portrait may be this high and mighty (5-2)

26 Article should be wrapped in less plastic, in which 10 items could go (5) 27 Power lies with Europe manoeuvring around as it’s hard to see through (3-6) 28 Wobbly bodies seen in these? (8,6)

DOWN

2 Material from US city underwritten by 50% of capital (5)

3 Appoint this person that’s come up with scheme (6)

4 Smashed particle – it becomes more than double (10)

5 Wild animal or something at the water’s edge, looking up (4)

6 Motorway exit where tractors should go? (3-4)

7 Looks painful, having ring inserted in facial feature (9)

8 Weekly magazine’s laid on wine for Wimbledon tennis perhaps (9,5)

9 Pictures, strangely shiny, set in process that gives everything more life (14)

14 Nuts attached to bonnet maybe limiting force in part of engine (10)

16 Masses hit oil pool with no time to deviate (3,6)

19 British getting over defeat order something pink and frothy? (7)

21 Lots of squares taking in arrangements of basic numbers – it’s puzzling (6)

24 In Moscow, change on the rise awoke poker-faced guards (5)

25 Frank in love with writer (4)