Cryptic Crossword

Across

8 Return late to come upon

crushed pair of skull bones (8) 9 Scone you said to crumble to

give snow leopards (6)

10 Placed to mark spot, we hear,

of extension (6)

11 Imagined drink offered (8) 12 Tells stories bringing down Hebridean island (4)

13 Zuckerberg empire Isobel got mixed up with in order to generate energy in body (10) 15 and 17 Old cars with safeguarding team making traditional British fare (7,3,4) 20 Occasionally compare the

present with the past (3,3,4) 22 Spicy story about bodily sac

(4)

24 Blunder smashes demi-jugs

(8)

26 Anaemic tree? (6) 27 Went rigid in past, perhaps,

with initial dread (6)

28 Monaco rulers seen at ghastly

supermarket (8)

Down

1 Loaded bread as cooking is

near (6)

2 Puff after discharge of fire

hydrant (8)

3 Decked with flags that burn

scarlet after last fire (10)

4 and 19 Shut up, child! Pay attention to, for example, falling when taking risks (5,2,3,4)

5 Firm game for takeover (4)

6 Strange and alternate only not

fashionable (6)

7 Reserves play for blows (8)

14 Rule out African Nationalist as family at risk of looking foolish (6,4) 16 Spray first letter given to

Scrooge (8)

18 Cleansing water found, I hear,

in wine I've put away (8)

19 see4

21 Notice only tune (6)

23 Timid, strange at heart and

not up to scratch (6)

25 Perform twice; result: totally

dead (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1 Down the drain, 8 Oasts, 9 God-parent, 11 Stripe, 12 Arrester, 14 Day-dreamer, 15 Bash, 18 Rare, 19 Aggressive, 21 Butchers, 23 Teaser, 25 Essential, 26 Brier, 27 Nevertheless. DOWN: 1 Destroyer, 2 Was apart, 3 Toga, 4 Elderberry, 5 Reader, 6 Id est, 7 Considerable, 10 Torch-holders, 13 Danger list, 16 Amidships, 17 Assemble, 20 Change, 22 Taste, 24 Glee.