CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Strong jump to follow marine creature, we hear (6-5)

9 Cheat dealer? (4-5)

10 Question model (5)

11 Make priest fix radio before noon (6)

12 One favouring trees all over the place? (8)

13 Book flight (6)

15 Officer’s information on armed criminal (8)

18 Remake of ET, anyhow, is in progress (2,3,3)

19 Bad detectives legged it first (6) 21 What a footballer usually won’t want for free (8)

23 Check rower’s bench (6)

26 Let on about John? (5)

27 Stop country curse (9)

28 ‘Act proper’ for man celebrating to some extent (11)

DOWN

1 This person’s upset about dress that’s very small (7) 2 Mum, visibly embarrassed?

A bit (5)

3 Tiredness of girl on ‘The X

Factor’ due to dance (9) 4 Black 2 in card game (4)

5 Like flatbread, perhaps, not

made to stick (8)

6 Swindle involving Republican,

one on the (big) fiddle? (2,3) 7 Source of hot air exposed

in Scottish town (7) 8 Mysterious drunk seen in East

Morecambe? (8)

14 People rejected unfashionable

actors on first part of show (8) 16 Strange paradigm about hospital displaying body part (9) 17 Exotic dancer welcomes a student for series of dates (8) 18 Endless meatloaf served up as breakfast food (7) 20 Deem the end – then, oddly, a lessening of tensions (7) 22 Dawn’s a star at university (3-2) 24 A Welsh girl from somewhere out east (5) 25 Something to shoot unlimited meat (4)