Last week’s Cryptic
ACROSS
1. Blokes do sums in their heads ( 8 )
5. NSW tells NT to leave balloons ( 6 )
10. Alcohol belonging to us is gathered from the grapevine? ( 7 )
11. Tip dog ( 7 )
12. Secretly disapprove re a German being too fanatical ( 9 )
13. Employer openly hated ignorant racists, especially Rodney ( 5 )
14. Soulmates are generous with wine and liquor (7,7)
18. Foolishly marries nice god of the underworld? (9,5)
22. Go around the world in old rickety balloon, I’m terrified initial-ly ( 5 )
24. Disoriented Oscar twice fails degree ( 9 )
26. Wound allowed to become red ( 7 )
27. Apple centre with two laptops and a cockatoo ( 7 )
28. Tutorial to reduce noise ( 6 )
29. Parting words: “Obey God’s order” ( 8 )
DOWN
1. Qld player’s naked bottom seen around topless bar ( 6 )
2. Anaesthetised Irish lass starts gradually counting ( 9 )
3. Taunt the Portuguese coach over midfield ( 5 )
4. Abdomen gas always swirls inside with Italian food ( 7 )
6. Untangled the wire, around one gram heavier ( 9 )
7. Lantern ran out of nitrogen subsequently ( 5 )
8. Stun work superiors and refuse oxygen ( 8 )
9. Hot tub – Romeo and Kay’s romance ( 6 )
15. Charitably give £50 sphere from great sculptor ( 9 )
16. I married twice by speaking unscrupulously ( 9 )
17. Huge lack of profit in fossil fuel ( 8 )
19. Show Arts Centre banned garments ( 6 )
20. Fed up with Canberra head office not having a piece of paper? (2,5)
21. Meat haters heartlessly vote to reject sausage ( 6 )
23. Metal undergarments on top soldier ( 5 )
25. Nobody cared when captain went off and paddled ( 5 )