Crossword

MORE CROSSWORDS IN TABLOID!

ACROSS

1 Purr maybe as one with no original ideas? (7) 5 Forthcoming, like a shop assistant? (2,5)

9 Study couple leading galloping dance (5)

10 Suffering painful disorder could make chum irate (9) 11 Winds disturbing isle after festival (10) 12 Ceremony takes politician to foreign river (4)

14 Curate involved with mad fun? It’s artificial (12) 18 Minister of religion I squashed, one admitted for holy promotion! (12)

21 Country home in which artist settles (4)

22 Piercing action of tool, ace for penetrating (10)

25 Big man about fifty tackled by rival who looks out for trouble? (9)

26 One isolated for more extended period, not good (5) 27 What can go round, one way and another (7)

28 Daughter always to slip up making brief excursion (3,4)

DOWN

1 Baddie hugging revolutionary 5 Across (6)

2 Maybe fine joke is rubbish ultimately (6)

3 Talk with girl, French lady in control (10)

4 End of flight has upset parrot in mountainous region (5) 5 Trendy English member meeting worker becomes crude (9) 6 Thus yours truly gets the lot? Not entirely (4)

7 Boat launched with bosses in attendance? (8)

8 Get away, having admitted-commercial prank (8) 13 Yokel’s part, reconstructing arrangement for golf tournament (6,4)

15 Old city chap wearing gold stars (4,5)

16 Bill given greeting, always someone deemed a success (8) 17 Like circle and rings expected to meet requirements? (2,6) 19 Note sense in what’s being said (6)

20 Place where you’ll see prisoners out of bed get agitated (4,2)

23 Change the last word, last bit of record (5)

24 Part of the theatrical scenery in residence (4)