CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

9 Demure English principal (5) 10 Crucial time I have after event at

Sadler’s Wells, maybe (9) 11 Strange quality that lucky and

unlucky numbers have? (7) 12 Divine messenger’s strange

email gripping church (7) 13 Agent wants old books put in

new container (5)

14 Providing precise information

on action to blind mice? (9) 16 The insensibility that a

crocodile has? (4-11)

19 Most severe state sure to be

troublesome (9)

21 Last bit of food eaten by dogs –

soft stuff (5)

23 Very cold types in

top positions (7)

25 About to go to Scottish island as

one out of the rat race? (7) 27 Gladly given permit to remain

unproductive (3,6)

28 Electrical unit established by a

lake in Africa (5)

DOWN

1 Colleague in middle of room

keeping very quiet (4) 2 Bring an end to anger through

teasing (4,2)

3 Stuff like food that can be

served again (10)

4 Excited men turning up to be given employment (6)

5 Protected with a ‘nutcase’

around? (8)

6 Refuse from crowd

building up (4)

7 Put new energy into troubled lives – one gets little thanks getting involved (8)

8 More than one scientist gets to go round island following old account (10) 13 How to get a goat to sleep?

Music! (10)

15 Divine act, I fancy,

is typical (10)

17 Son (10) enthralled by foreign song – he did this? (8)

18 Old poetry, lines put out with

too much hype? (8) 20 Projects worth millions finally

abandoned (6)

22 Artist sitting on bank on very

few occasions (6)

24 A vessel not properly

closed? (4)

26 Not all appreciated a mouldy

cheese (4)