LATERAL THINKING: CRYPTIC
Use the cryptic clues to solve this crossword with a twist.
ACROSS
1. Accompany to foreign sector (6) 5. Kidnap with a catapult (8) 8. Unimportant boxing category? (11)
10. Gentle stroke for a bad back (3) 12. Senor mousy, though heart is large (8)
14. Sounds made when nose is broken (6)
15. Friction I change for a small amount (8)
17. Send goods abroad from harbour (6)
18. Yelled out, “A sea, see!” That’s where St Francis comes from (6) 20. Miniseries not taking in woes (8) 22. You wreak a cry of discovery (6) 23. Decade in which there are more than eight items of neckwear (8) 25. Combine to form total, even candid types (3)
26. Doubt about land set aside (11)
28. Vagrant with the French stamps (8)
29. Funeral garland transformed the war (6)
DOWN
2. Fishing lure for bowler (7) 3. Mother loses her head or the alternative (5)
4. Pull along to west (3) 5. Dresses in petticoat, son? (5,2) 6. Some frenetic butterfly catcher (3)
7. “Am mature!” claimed hobbyist (7)
9. Parasites such as wardrobe support and offspring (7-2) 11. Forty winks for every herring (6) 13. Begin moving to Nigeria (9) 16. Tool in pouch is electric (6) 19. Be quiet! Milk supplier experiences violent shiver (7)
20. Manors dictated social behaviour (7) 21. Supplements reform to see UK (4,3) 24. Heading on property document (5) 26. What a scapegoat has to take in therapy (3) 27. Promise to start voting one way (3)