The Saturday Paper

Last Week’s Cryptic

- Compiled by Cindy MacDonald

ACROSS

1. A great movie town in Morocco (10)

6. Setback after turn for vehicles (4)

10. Undergradu­ate humour? A mythical beast! (7)

11. Paints the family with a protective coating (7)

12. Fats for an early meal (9)

13. No French alien group (5)

14. Regret a short day around the old city (5)

15. Attract witty people? It’s said they are attractive! (9)

17. Added implicatio­ns – open ones! (9)

20. Assesses taxes (5)

21. Boy in charge, making

a noise (5)

23. Oysters, perhaps – grows very

quickly! (9)

25. Stabs, and one man goes

ashen (7)

26. Strange fellows – time for

a leftover bit (7)

27. Parramatta’s fish? (4)

28. Guides set the user astray (10)

DOWN

1. Odd in mobile radio? Only a little bit (5)

2. Clever calculator will slither to reign (5,4)

3. Device for raising two rugby tactics (5,3,6)

4. Rule also, approved Spooner of a right-wing libertaria­n author (3,4)

5. Single actor discovered in a European nation (7)

7. A trifle to Barbie’s squeeze (5) 8. Asset is in tatters, but it keeps things clean (9)

9. Unmarked vehicle – range ineffectiv­e but gives a good report (5,9)

14. Forbidden spirits? Nonsense! (9)

16. Trev, who wants to go back to

the past (9)

18. Enemies gain and lose direction when changed by the Goddess of Retributio­n (7) 19. Style so alarming for a heartbeat (7)

22. Plane crashed in mountain

kingdom (5)

24. Posed with two cardinals –

satisfies (5)

Solution next week

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Prime Ministers.
MUNGO MacCALLUM is the author of The Good, the Bad & the Unlikely: Australia’s Prime Ministers.

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