THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1285
An Ettinger travel pass case and two Connell Guides will be given to the sender of the first correct solution to the crossword and the clue of the week opened on Monday 15 November. Email the answers as a scan of a completed grid or a list, with the subject line The Week crossword 1285, to crossword@theweek.co.uk. Tim Moorey (timmoorey.com)
ACROSS
1 Having nuts on pastry is an advantage (4,5)
6 Swindle prison officer (5) 9 Poisonous mushroom given by girl keeping mum (7)
10 Jones maybe at home with a goddess (7)
11 Singular nervous complaint found on the beach (7)
12 Looking quickly for vegetable champion, so to speak (7)
13 Increase small circle in red and blue woolly (8)
15 Said to be influenced for type of leather (5)
17 English county with money (5) 19 Initially Latvia and Estonia supply types of digital hardware (8)
22 Sad being around eastern port (7)
24 Major Shakespearean character (3,4)
25 False reports are able to be seen by part of N Ireland (7)
26 More bubbly for engaging French girl-friend (7)
27 English novelist worked endlessly in retirement (5)
28 Humiliation in a cellar (9)
DOWN
1 That man’s behind transport for people who are late (6)
2 A lady to go around city unclothed? (7)
3 Bits in dog mess awful (9) 4 Saw publicity mature (5) 5 Heard fictional tranquillity in coda (9)
6 Coarse grass from southern border (5)
7 Catch on new espalier needing pressure (7)
8 Argumentative type right to intercept trickster (8)
14 Hit the drink in part of South London (9)
15 Flight is scariest in turbulence, enthralling all initially (9)
16 No new constable sorted out barrier (8)
18 One’s against children above all getting wine (7)
20 Beastly wild one in row (7) 21 Bored by routine for humans but exciting time for deer (2,1,3) 23 Jack, say is briefly behind (5) 24 One gripped by seat in capital (5)