The Scotsman

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- DEREK ALLEN

ACROSS 1 Insects come to a sticky end on it (8) 6 Shakespear­ean firearm (6) 9 Along the way reached resort (3) 10 According to hesitant lady included, it happens yearly (3,5) 11 Not in appropriat­e clothes (6) 12 Agreement wrapped up, say (4) 13 Cut back before one getting up and splitting into opposing camps (10) 15 Old fairytale being intellectu­al? Not yet fully proved (12) 18 It’s distinct, all calabrese has been cooked (5,2,1,4) 21 Ordinary crossing (10) 23 Second joker’s loot (4) 24 Docking vessel? (6) 26 Do we tell about having been thrashed? (8) 27 Eastern company concerned with the environmen­t (3) 28 Notice Ruby had become very angry (3,3) 29 Exceptiona­l person, thing or airborne creature (4,4) DOWN 2 Extra space to be made up (6) 3 Behave fairly on the cricket pitch? (4,3,4) 4 She could be flat against the wall (3-2) 5 Motorcycli­st, not South Carolina walker (7) 6 Broadcast list of events (9) 7 Took the chair for a day (3) 8 Eastern relation distracted (8) 14 Aren’t doubles matches played in it? (7,4) 16 What decorator did made him drunk (9) 17 Left thee times with vowels in shout of praise (8) 19 He flew in from Geneva via Torquay (7) 20 Vehicle always needed for job (6) 22 Weren’t endlessly revising what is more modern (5) 25 It runs in the heat (3)

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