The Saturday Paper

Last Week’s Cryptic

- Mungo MacCallum’s Cryptic

ACROSS

1. Forces entry as trophy announced with major golf tournament (5,4)

6. Legal actions for containers ( 5 )

9. Summary: racehorse has been returned ( 5 )

10. A doctor: that’s directions covering 100 moods ( 9 )

11. Pine and fret — ire results (3,4)

12. Red vehicle owned by me ( 7 )

13. Monet and Manet insist promises broken (14)

17. Action novel: nun involved, outside the rules (14)

21. Cock to rest uneasily following small macropod ( 7 )

23. Cold thinner for char ( 7 )

25. Court case operates, but only for rehearsals (5,4)

26. Decorate a party with the British navy ( 5 )

27. Unknown antelopes retreat among the rushes ( 5 )

28. Silliest, at any rate ( 9 ) DOWN

1. Kerosene – good score, a strong fluke! ( 8 )

2. Run into popular dog ( 5 )

3. Delivered pure horse to Spiderman! ( 9 )

4. Flora found around earth, and other worlds ( 7 )

5. Castro, for one, raised company for Verdi opera ( 7 )

6. Cool king, and bright! ( 5 )

7. Saint’s car required for church official ( 9 )

8. Vigorously resist a nun! ( 6 )

14. Gasp, play dumb over nothing – child’s play! ( 9 )

15. Traveller – one can rave about England! ( 9 )

16. Nightingal­e found in Italian city ( 8 )

18. Five raise wild ceremony – but it’s not real ( 7 )

19. New, one lettuce, first class – raised in city of Cyprus! ( 7 )

20. Speaker delivers alternativ­es around a territory ( 7 )

22. Record for lofty youth ( 5 )

24. I complain, bringing up Wolf ( 5 )

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