The Scotsman

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- DEREK ALLEN

ACROSS 1 Chastising rope? (8) 6 Placed restrictio­ns on dog basket (6) 9 Part of the cottage is green (3) 10 Blooming avalanche? (8) 11 Detail refined feature (6) 12 Scandinavi­an god with oriental part (4) 13 Surprised sedation’s bothering husband inside (10) 15 Alternativ­e to easy money? (4,8) 18 Female priest? (12) 21 Frisk a few seen as game for a laugh (10) 23 Aunty has no time to change money in China (4) 24 Fast runner in winter (3,3) 26 Not about having contended strangely without a gap (3,2,3) 27 And not this way in Scandinavi­a (3) 28 Learned bergen has welcomed tennis player (6) 29 Pungency or sourness romeo included (8)

DOWN 2 Boss in America found no change initially between two houses (6) 3 Might push learner with excavating maching (5,6) 4 A formal legal process has been curtailed in the halls (5) 5 Livery man Patrick in charge (7) 6 it’s a riddle to study one French instrument (9) 7 Old bird’s egg in church (3) 8 Establish oneself firmly in continenta­l ditch (8) 14 Dewey doesn’t correct demon barber (7,4) 16 Park at end of day stick to processing waste (9) 17 Show goodwill to be right when devil’s around (8) 19 A room we converted in town in Australia (7) 20 Ran round inside to obtain red stone (6) 22 No sapling this tree (5) 25 Girl certain with out resistance (3)

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