The Herald on Sunday crosswords

ACROSS

1 Symbolic picture concerned with

award ceremony (14)

9 Girl’s local plants (5)

10 Permit me, I needed to change TV’s

most popular evening slots (5,4)

11 Bits of film in feet, internally, showing

solar phenomenon? (7)

12 Branch of knowledge transforming

scenic Spain (7)

13 US soldier on war’s-end Day to make

a donation (4)

14 Instances broadcast non-stop (9)

18 First of eight-wheelers moving

away (9)

20 Following kiss, catch outside (4)

22 US boy has food almost

unbranded (7)

25 Caustic joke offered by fellow (7)

26 Money specialist who practises

thrift? (9)

27 State of the ground for departure (5) 28 Perhaps fail, making some

antacid (4,2,8)

DOWN

1 Labourer doesn’t start with the roof

beam (6)

2 Declares at 150 (very good) during

musical festival (9)

3 Specimen old enough (7)

4 Former student in fit of the sulks,

I’ve produced swear-word (9)

5 Follows reverse sides of coins (5)

6 Hippest sort of time signal (3,4)

7 Vegetable, an ingredient of cannelloni

once (5)

8 Figure like two, perhaps, in pigpen (7) 15 Ancient queen puts note on sign, a trap

perhaps (9)

16 Worries when muddled Sean and

I exit (9)

17 Ruled broadcast was wet (7)

19 Battle over security device for

the magician (7)

20 Figure twelve surrounds horse (7)

21 Social disgrace of setting

a meal oddly (6)

23 Girl I grumble about (5)

24 Cook embraces one leader (5)

ACROSS

6 Evidence of being elsewhere (5) 7 Oars (6)

9 Spotted (skin) (7)

10 Nervous, strained (5)

11 Frankenstein’s servant (4)

13 Reach a level of maturity (4,2) 15 Sharp increases (in price, eg) (5) 16 Male domestic feline (6)

17 Remainder (4)

20 Edible organs (5)

22 Country bordering Slovenia (7) 23 Failed to remember (6)

24 Blockade of a town (5)

DOWN

1 Animate thing (4,4)

2 Hazardous (5)

3 Follows instructions (5)

4 Sufferers for a cause (7)

5 Adolescent (4)

6 Pain, suffering (10)

8 Carry on (10)

12 Gear (3)

13 Little ___, lettuce variety (3) 14 Grappled, struggled (8)

15 Transportation of goods (7) 18 Extreme (5)

19 Loop in a rope (5)

21 Croaking pond-dweller (4)