CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Trouser features accommodating to some jeans (3-4)

5 Smashed El Cid at fortress (7) 9 Aberdeen terrier holds

record (5)

10 Absorbing one word of action, row and land beside a stream (9)

11 Darling little article,

one right in street (10)

12 Move paid for by thug (2,2) 14 One joining society is skirting

piece of railroad wreckage (6) 16 Adopting name, made fun of

privileged, somehow (5-3) 18 Approach, and stick together

around me (4,4)

19 Remained sober for audition (6) 22 Following piece of

writing online (4)

23 Cut by criticism, so incites

resentful disparagement (4,6) 26 Preventing blemish in object (9) 27 Line dance can go

wandering (5)

28 Lousy at shuffling decks (4,3) 29 Harmony mastered in vocal

performance (7)

DOWN

1 Set of principles about a

society that’s folded (7)

2 It’s included in

the donation (5)

3 Trees densely packed around lake when dawn arrives (5,5)

4 Ogre stifling one’s scream (6) 5 Attempts to hide extra in

chalices (5-3)

6 Heard shorebird change

direction (4)

7 Trail just occupied by female

insect (9)

8 Compared green with symbiotic

growth in the ear (7) 13 One of the headliners I remove

from Central America (5,5) 15 Battle cry witnessed in Indian

city (5,4)

17 Tree specialist

Pasternak included in creative work (8)

18 A deep hole in

California’s chief city (7)

20 Taking mark, completed

pitch (7)

21 Sad time set back Havana,

perhaps (6)

24 Get attached to horse of a

certain colour (5)

25 So I split by mid-afternoon (4)