CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Going around bend, cover

action scene (3,5)

5 Bobbing doughnut in an

apartment (6)

9 Whiter wine consumed

by each (7)

10 Group of soldiers ordered

outside of truck (7)

11 Settle up with agent with a final bit of money (5)

12 Publicist, holding wild bash, interjected scene from the past (9)

13 Never permits recesses (5) 15 Interrupting award, miss movie

technique (5-2)

18 Heard Dunaway express skepticism for film technique (4-3)

19 Stoic performing in pen (5)

21 A temple is reconstructed using

a sped-up process (4-5) 24 Some old Spaniards in

Palermo or Salerno (5) 25 Elderly widow gathering bet (7) 26 Nary an item diluted in Yule drink (7)

27 New toy did strange thing (6) 28 Pig thief changed comedy scene (3,5)

DOWN

1 Frisking props for Batman and Frodo? (8)

2 Give some protection for Proust novel (9) 3 Precarious, hot and breezy (5) 4 Part of a letter shoots back (5) 6 Spooks right inside swamps (9) 7 Part of Oklahoma hates city in Nebraska (5) 8 Slightly changes task we reorganized (6)

10 Lulu getting around to edge (4,3)

14 Port or starboard lamp is put back with pleasure (9) 15 Helicopter crew’s first jumper (7)

16 Riling Utah city autocrat (9) 17 Octet possessing fine vision (8) 20 Movie outfit fastener I love (6) 22 Cut back style for the audience (5)

23 Boredom among ten nuisances (5)

24 Witty word provided theme (5)