CRYP T I C CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Model I love in play (7)

5 Miss opportunity to wrap up,

heading off (4,3)

9 Stand-in starts to learn off Cambridge University master (5)

10 Dressing, group before

getting on (9)

11 Current leader of group associated with masterful playing (4,6)

12 Leave out some heirloom I

treasure (4)

14 Rural types look outside hotel

for a herb (9-3)

18 Supporters of Queen captured

by revolutionary chiefs (12) 21 Section without lights learner

driver avoided (4)

22 To be good enough at sums, reps

will need to be trained (4,6) 25 Character, kind one

to emulate (4,5)

26 Member of the clergy in chapter,

unidentified (5)

27 Hopelessness of the French

couple (7)

28 Best lines written about one

with a horticultural skill (7)

DOWN

1 Tug overwhelmed by river in

flood (6)

2 Magic Circle: sect must include

foremost of conjurors (6) 3 General mood in a newly-built

rest home about parking (10) 4 Colour of bream at sea (5)

5 Help from worker after

stop in LA (4,1,4)

6 Damage statuette, knocking its

top off (4)

7 Somehow impound E in place frequented by drug addicts (5,3)

8 Continuously move up bound by

rope? (8) 13 Drink before riding about on a horse after bad trips tackling short run (7,3)

15 See 20 Down

16 Account accompanying amount

of paper daughter got (8) 17 Prince of Tyre, almost priceless

bust (8)

19 Verse, extremely short, by Australian soldier, perhaps unfinished (6)

20 & 15 Down A cocktail relaxed

Bryan, and bubbly (6,9) 23 Separate in Croatian resort (5) 24 Girl found over in

Hammersmith (4)