The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Cryptic Crossword
Both sets of clues fit both grids
ACROSS
1 Proper privilege (5)
4 Cited new decree (5)
10 Unacceptable idea I rejected (3,2)
11 Staged duet, say, in a 24-hour period (7)
12 Noon gig wrongly continuing (7)
13 Spring walk? (5)
14 General meaning of snow pile (5)
16 Saw commercial era (5)
21 Bird put on leg? (5)
23 Decreasing work (7)
25 Refuse tripe (7)
26 Left in hold and divide (5)
27 Animal good in row (5)
28 Michael’s rank? (5)
DOWN
2 Number, for instance in Bury (7)
3Capital almost has number one (5)
5 Mad deer madly fancied (7)
6 Cried about drink (5)
7 Provide for friend owing a bit (5)
8 Put on step (5)
9 Empty heavy article beside coastal town (5)
15 Pardon four breaking in to smithy (7)
17 Interrogated cook and journalist (7)
18 In the know, Del must leave US state (5)
19 Compact seed hardly empty (5)
20 Stares through goggles without Governor-General (5)
22 Name a one Arab state (5)
24 Or surround the alternative (5)