Cryptic Crossword
Across
1 No date has been fixed for evil
to pass round second hell (4,3) 5 Is contingent on counts (7)
9 Regret including reverseengineered gene and back out (7)
10 Young animal consumed at start of summer becomes a butterfly (7)
11 Some of us are more implacable than an American or European (9)
12 Lever up finally and get a lift
(5)
13 Ruby and Tawny recover
temper (5)
15 Beat predicament, having
gentle illumination (9)
16 Pointedly ignore, then manage
to make a sharp exit (3,3,3)
18 Did crawl to pool, originally, in
bog (5) 21 Change substitute who's not
native (5)
22 Rough sea coast I link up with
(9)
24 Painful kick given by riotous
party? (7)
26 Research team inclines
towards French city (7)
27 Unusual flawed garnets (7) 28 Thrown out when down and
cut off at start (7)
Down
1 Do some DIY, perhaps, and
make a mess of things (5,2)
2 He doesn't take drugs when
has worrying nose-run (3-4)
3 Canine that is posing as
motherless young cow (5)
4 Forever figure on three-way
relationship (7,8)
5 Guys leave first to rest unsteadily in Harrods, say (10,5) 6 Posh pair start quietly in posh
school society (3)
7 Night on tiles produced zero
result (7)
8 Dodgy splinter group has
unique selling point (7)
12 Scottish officers reported in
Greek city state (5)
14 Are nascent backward
offspring less nuts? (5)
16 Caesar's friend was ignorant
of America (7)
17 Rank on Thematic Apperception Test is not in such good shape (7)
19 First man and worker are not
for turning (7)
20 Newspaper chief is influenced
by force (7)
23 How iceberg may split when light first penetrates large hole (5)
25 Academic put on (3)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
ACROSS: 1 All night long, 9 Augment, 10 Eternal, 11 Lots, 12 Berth, 13 Iris, 16 Farmers, 17 Doubles, 18 Step-son, 21 Preface, 23 Deed, 24 Straw, 25 Tips, 28 Extreme, 29 Eat into, 30 All or nothing. DOWN: 2 Lighter, 3 Need, 4 Gathers, 5 Treated, 6 Open, 7 General, 8 All systems go, 9 All of a sudden, 14 Least, 15 Super, 19 Electra, 20 Not near, 21 Placebo, 22 Avignon, 26 Tell, 27 Etch.
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