The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Cryptic Crossword
Both sets of clues fit both grids
ACROSS
1 Pages in cut grass, so content (5)
4 Bird the French have a name for (5) 10 Habitual character in Newmarket Hospital (5) 11 Thus article’s received by professional singer (7) 12 Sound of cow entering vase – scram! (7) 13 Harvests with broken spear (5) 14 Listening to an ass when 16 fully grown (5)
Group of students, 150 and an idiot (5) 21 Miniature will replace hundreds with thousand (5) 23 Stuffing most of side into aeroplane part (7) 25 Backing schedule four with a pilot (7)
26 Blockhead the instrument mixed (5) glue for 27 Loud men make an appearance (5) 28 Social type going with spirit? (5)
DOWN
2 Has embarrassed made upset (7) and 3 Annoying nothing on person – what has sauce! (5) 5 Rascal returning former currency is put at risk (7) 6 Peruvian beast turns a shopping area over (5) 7 Clever veteran conserves energy (5) 8 Missiles lost SIM over land in ocean (5)
9 Bush second, held by the man he formerly beat? (5) 15 Signs of a beginner demolishing pallets (1-6) 17 Variety of English pebbles (7) 18 Pass a year without fruit to test purity (5) 19 Second promise to get weapon (5) 20 Stares through goggles without Governor-general (5) 22 Farewell is something cast in gold (5) 24 Name a one Arab state (5)