CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 One in seven miners is retiring (7) 9 State induced by depression or trouble (8) 10 Sue is so proper (7) 11 Lump welcomes lunchtime — he likes to fill his face (8) 12 Buffet with beer (6) 13 This gets carelessly misplaced — perhaps too carelessly (10) 15 Ashmolean regularly reviewed charitable donations (4) 16 Are they boring to do this pop trios like? (6,3) 21 All right to uncork wine? (4) 22 Generous care of two French gentlemen provoking hatred (10) 24 Breathe without sound (6) 25 Individually do something with no chance of success (4,4) 27 Putrid concoction stored originally inside hamper (7) 28 Ragged volunteers’ times were wrong not right (8) 29 A good eighteen holes wrecked (7)

DOWN

2 ‘Rocky’ a bad role inspiring great affection (8) 3 Close broadcast with no current issue (8) 4 Perfect referee to control Northern Ireland and Austria heading for draw (10) 5 It’s nonsense some characters in Branagh’s Othello are upset (4) 6 Temperature or pressure leads to overriding and ruinous inertia (6) 7 Bound to be hot below opening either side of chimney (7) 8 Born in chirpy milieu of East London (7) 11 See business routinely being as regular as this? (9) 14 One could make strides with this drill possibly (10) 17 Reluctant air settled over gigolo (8) 18 Stalks cut back in downward spiral (8) 19 Detective stifled by a town’s bitterness (7) 20 Mike interrupting garbled patois that’s laid on thick (7) 23 Twerps docked point — or lots (6) 26 Three Men In A Boat perhaps vaunted (4)

Monday’s Puzzle Solved