WEEKEND CROSSWORD

No 3301

ACROSS

1 Seeking one style to a certain extent (5,1,7) 10 How to make a prompt payment under the hammer (2,3,4) 11 Shadow high-class doctor and artist (5) 12 Plead to remove young creature (7) 13 Amongst ringleaders part that’s a bit of a fiddle (1-6) 14 Rock singer to stand down (6) 16 Beast’s troublesome teardrop (8) 18 Polished all over (8) 20 Leave word of warning before green light (6) 23 Ignorant lady has pottery (7) 24 Prefix in current use (7) 26 I went with five, that is to say, five hundred covered in evergreen (5) 27 Pupils should draw on his experience (3,6) 28 One at the peak of one’s form (3,2,3,5)

DOWN

2 Destined to be doomed (5) 3 In there long-suffering soon (7) 4 Rouse Kenneth away from in Scotland to begin with (6) 5 Everybody initially excited with sanguinary story (8) 6 He had accepted Sally being full of spirits (7) 7 I be let out from dungeon (9) 8 Noted physician (6,2,5) 9 Woo bounder first in illegal trial (8,5) 15 Romans in a new enclave (3,6) 17 Pertinent about part of Middle East (8) 19 Despicable individual as well in mediocre surroundings (2-3-2) 21 Top gear it is implied (7) 22 Heavy insect? (6) 25 American bird before a companion of Paul! (5)