Crossword: Win £550
Both sets of clues lead to the same answer, revealing in the shaded squares a new film starring Isla Fisher (3).
STRAIGHT CLUES
ACROSS
8 Obstinate (8) 9 Casual garment (1-5) 10 Airline captains (6) 11 Last parts of daylight hours (8) 12 Started (5) 13 Natural aptitude (5) 14 Possessed (5) 16 Coarse, uneven (5) 18 Narrow-necked bottle (5) 20 Take place (5) 25 Of least age (8) 26 Dramatically sad (6) 27 Winged insect (6) 28 Reducing to flour (8)
DOWN
1 Chevron (6) 2 Utter, total (8) 3 Grilled bread (5) 4 Book’s reference section (5) 5 Put into speech (5) 6 Piercing, highpitched (6) 7 Pulling roughly (8) 15 Greets with pleasure (8) 17 Apple and pear plantations (8) 19 US Upper House (6) 21 Labour organisations (6) 22 At no time (5) 23 Platform (5) 24 A step indoors (5)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
8 Burnt orb’s turned out to be refractory (8) 9 Incredible thirst one’s assumed in the summer (1-5) 10 Plot is involved with high-fliers (6) 11 Seven-gin cocktail! Things get dark after these! (8) 12 Started a French plead first (5) 13 Possible shape of a skirt reportedly showing panache (5) 14 Had one with new extremely detailed openers (5) 16 Some breakthroughs in part of a golf course (5) 18 Some breaks Alfred displayed when returning a bottle… (5) 20 … happen to be seen with a little Médoc curiously enough (5) 25 The least mature gents you upset (8) 26 US soldier in a rustic vehicle going west? Very sad! (6) 27 Let bee out, and another little creature (6) 28 Ring ding arrangement that’s crushing (8)
DOWN
1 Unorthodox priest showing a sign of rank (6) 2 It’s out-and-out, but a sole alternative (8) 3 Raise one’s glass to a little Amaretto, a starter for the party (5) 4 Part of the book some may find extreme (5) 5 Say it’s complete (5) 6 Quiet stream, yet sharp and strident (6) 7 Grand gig, possibly, yet tedious! (8) 15 Greets someone with greetings! (8) 17 Places for growing fruit or beet vegetables (8) 19 A tense development in an American house (6) 21 Marriages between groups of workers (6) 22 I don’t believe it! Not in our lifetimes at least! (5) 23 Gets a change of a place for acting (5) 24 One in a flight with Air TS possibly (5)