Last Week’s Cryptic
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