Prize cryptic crossword
Across 1/15 Writer having revised Part One spies wasted worker at forge (8,9) 6 Transaction to import books concerning London’s Hampstead Heath? (6) 9 Fat old woman gets cold burger (3,3) 10 Would he calculate mc2
of E in beer mug? (8) 11 See 4 Down 12 Confusing passages, Bryn Terfel finally has it sorted (10) 14 Very intense compilers
keen to neck wallop (5-3) 16 Dismal or dark horse (4) 18 Metal god finds Indian
city (4) 19 Greek plays, others in Old English, I start to adapt (8) 21 Self-denial exists among cats at play with mice (10) 22 Brown back and midsection in Pietà or other work (4) 24 Pull out having contest
no side wins (8) 26 Old move on – relative
takes in V&A (6) 27 Clever Kate Minola
departs (6) 28 French head drinking English wine looked wobbly (8) Down 2 Defence starts to address legal issues behind injunction (5) 3 Protest about WW1 battle charge after start of truce (11) 4/11 For trophy unfairly taken, Celtic exploited hole in formation? (5,3,4) 5 Styled on wife-beating it becomes work of remorse and conscience (8,2,5) 6 Actor put in frock that’s lifted without notice? (2,4) 7 Fortune to keep after taxes (3) 8 See 23 13 Nurse at work after dark
has good drink (11) 15 See 1 Across 17 Apparently carnivorous French dad to pass through! (8) 20 Sent aloft to assassinate but stopped by Mr Hunter (6) 23/8 Rage in The Iliad
confused poet (5,9) 25 Husband and uncle
eviscerated in shade (3) The first five correct solutions to this week’s puzzle opened next Friday receive copies of the Oxford Dictionary Thesaurus and Wordpower Guide. Answers and winners’ names will be published next Saturday.
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