CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Private dance, silent, moving (11) 9 Leaves time for bed? (6,3) 10 Make old books for spy (5) 11 Wrongly arrest existentialist (6) 12 Upset after performance one’s created (8)
13 A university bags retiring writer (6)
15 Plot scam with father to seize power (8)
18 Be with artist breaking tiles in church? (8)
19 Jump to follow cool modern music style (3-3)
21 Cleric short of work wears precious stone that’s worthless (8) 23 Attack part of latest
RAF effort (6)
26 Shouts of encouragement about good looks (5) 27 Complaint about parking left anger (9)
28 Deny temp had worked without reward (5-6)
DOWN
1 Select a fancy keyboard (7) 2 Risk losing daughter’s needle (5) 3 Discourage fellow cleaner (9) 4 Leave part of London when husband’s promoted (4) 5 Phone system’s temporary, the second one replaced by company (8)
6 Cheer European and others on the way up (5) 7 Instruction to ignore Beatles song (3,2,2) 8 Stone married English girl, then engineered hit (8) 14 Crowd supports occasionally sick game (8)
16 Trace audible fault with steering mechanism (9) 17 Clean finished? (6-2) 18 Reportedly shout verse that’s scanned (7) 20 Imagine being before nurse (7) 22 Problem children (5) 24 Fighting in Bill’s honour (5) 25 See The Sixth Sense on YouTube initially (4)