CROSSWORDPeterChamberlain

No. 898

ACROSS

1 Composer receives court

decision ( 7)

5 Campaigning by RAF movement in Hertfordshire town ( 7)

9 Vacancy you and I fail to settle

( 3)

10 Increase new gun team ( 7) 11 No agent ordered as much as

can be carried ( 7)

12 Two US coins of little

importance ( 6- 3- 4)

15 Hero loses us before last day

in wandering adventure ( 7) 16 Dave and I replaced books

that were divergent ( 7) 17 Book hike in bush ( 7)

20 Wild animal from Penarth ( 7) 22 Fruit in the scones Ruth

cooked! ( 5,8)

24 Emphasise what one should

do with polish ( 3,2,2) 26 Herod was a tenacious chap,

it was reported ( 7) 27 Recognised inclusion of unimportant member of organisation ( 3)

28 In the event it led to give a

right ( 7)

29 Lyre Del retuned was getting

quite old ( 7)

DOWN

1 Lady shortly consuming

European meat ( 4)

2 State during monarch’s

incapacity ( 7)

3 At home old copper’s black, it

cannot be defended ( 11) 4 Shaky animal within edges of

territory ( 7) 5 Rain to come down on marshy

area ( 7)

6 Do this to score it ( 3)

7 Coffee in a Middle Eastern

language first ( 7)

8 Simple factor going over a

railway ( 10)

13 Roderick guessing first where metals can be found with this ( 8,3)

14 Obsession with falcon seen

above mount ( 5- 5) 18 At times one’s life is in the

balance ( 7)

19 Potentially hen can, with

energy, improve ( 7) 20 Corridor booked by traveller

( 7)

21 Impetuous person keen,

having impetus ( 7)

23 Road covering very

undulating ( 4)

25 Get knotted ( 3)