National Post (National Edition)

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

ACROSS 1 Apollo launcher rested next to large metal container (6) 4 Spanish spacecraft engaging wheel (8) 10 Country song about guys (7) 11 Shooting the breeze, chewed over Big Bang (7) 12 A Red Giant excited actor (9) 13 Peg interrupte­d by the guy’s giggling sound (5) 14 Approaches new listeners (5) 16 Origin of all sorts of drugs: rocks in space (9) 18 With large light behind, get full moon (9) 20 Voyaging vessel of old initially needed gas (5) 22 Welcome look seen in triumphant expression (5) 23 Island with grain for goat up above (9) 25 Healer taking a journey all over (7) 26 Spot inside displays darkened areas (7) 27 Officials who can certify documents and not sign (8) 28 Device that measures outside of orange object falling from the sky (6) DOWN 1 Celestial body can commence (5,2) 2 Pack a city in Florida (5) 3 Resistance infuriates some law enforcers (7) 5 Heathen god with horns eating a piece of garlic (5) 6 Spacecraft has room for performing surgery on bad canine (7) 7 Giving a title to sovereign embracing darkness (9) 8 Lock holding one grand for catty female (7) 9 Dolphin mother greeting mother with “Hello” (4,4) 15 Space traveller is so tense about restricted broadcast (9) 17 Illegal entry through theatre’s passageway (8) 18 Tramp was busted by FBI agent (7) 19 Hero-worshipper also getting in lascivious look (7) 20 Disturb the object found in streaky rock (7) 21 Abstainer’s neurons garbled (7) 23 Physicist’s one caught in fix (5) 24 Circle area with atmospheri­c gas (5)

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