WEEKEND CROSS WORD
ACROSS
1 Sharp change of direction, good turn, made by traitor at tower (8) 6 Be soaked in hilarious nameless funnies (6) 9 Company car (6) 10 One gets behind the baseball batsman (8) 11 Fine member to cultivate the land (4) 12 Rule like Indian princes (5) 13 Oxen harness not completely rustic (4) 14 Poacher girl travelling taking in old dictionary compiler (13) 17 Exotic food containing eggs? (5-4,4) 20 This plane travels on water (4) 22 Beginning attack (5) 24 Jug that had been removed from the water (4) 25 Reduction as in law (8) 26 Round old copper in the gallery up to now (2,4) 27 Thousand in tale that’s turbulent (6) 28 Kind of chutney in cheese sent back (4-4)
DOWN
2 Place in stable (7) 3 Sociable person had pleasant drink (4,5) 4 Two-way revolver (5) 5 Man putting contents of vessel into mug (4-3) 6 An insect’s evolution is uninterrupted (9) 7 Try to catch youth leader who’s suspicious (5) 8 Something unpleasant, thick shaggy hair on cockney lady! (7) 15 Flightless creature negotiates way across (9) 16 Vacuum cleaner on embankment blocking Colorado River (6,3) 17 Inside robe, question about gift by Will (7) 18 Lady’s name he spelt differently (7) 19 Like kilts worn by people at Edinburgh (7) 21 Clothes-horse from Ireland, say (5) 23 Two, say, have encountered uplifting pole (5)