CRYP T I C CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Altered by lie, altered

by design (12)

9 Part in sitcom for terrible

dummy (9)

10 Stayed saucy, twirling with

tango (5)

11 More feeble play on words? That

is right (6)

12 Age taken by fat old painter? (8) 13 Husband is maybe

hiding alarm (6)

15 Storing remains covered by

incense (8)

18 Drift catching current finally

hooking fish (8)

19 Gorged showing greed oddly,

after wine case (6)

21 Punish hound taking common

order rolling over (8)

23 America can, employing army,

win (6)

26 Greek character central to

Medea? (5)

27 Politician rested in bed for

illness … (9)

28 … strangely ensured

it ran wild (12)

DOWN

1 Crab maybe walked about,

almost curious (7)

2 Light unit measurement’s

European norm initially (5) 3 Blast resounded round exhaust’s opening in backfire (9)

4 Grasses Sun up! (4) 5 Afflictions of soldiers, male,

under canvas? (8)

6 Boy, even empty, carrying some

weight (5)

7 Tendency to include reading

perhaps for education (8) 8 Pungent air around middle of

restroom (6) 14 Right in America upset,

albeit wrongly (8)

16 Wrong keeping head of cattle, cultivate a grain (9)

17 Annihilate multitude about to

catch a cold (8)

18 Break from Church doctrine’s

first in diocese (6)

20 Stood for action holding weight

lifted (7)

22 An American writer or two? (5)

24 Tall story with article about extraterrestrial (5)

25 Sentence is overturned leading to discharge (4)