National Post (National Edition)
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Scottish king seen as
dull mug (6)
5 Maiden, one facing emotional pressure as
‘the other woman’? (8)
9 Wild ape, grunter in
exciting tale (4-6)
10 A modern miss collecting
pounds for charity (4)
11 Free from grime when brought
into class (8)
12 Numbers crazy about fruit (6) 13 Think as timid type
that’s lost love (4) 15 Community member, mostly horrible, wanting drink in pub? (8)
18 Displaced people creating ado
with Paris wrecked (8)
19 Things that can kill animal in
retreat (4)
21 Bird, old and cold, grasped by an
animal doctor (6)
23 I exist concealing endless desire, one appearing to be unreal (8)
25 English people of fashion in
college (4)
26 Direction taken by sailor? One
makes a bit of a meal of it! (4,6) 27 New tiro, learner within day
working with skill (8) 28 Planet faced with onset of
deadly shortage? (6) DOWN 2 Superior wise person demonstrates customary style of language (5)
3 Gloomy church always getting smaller in number (9)
4 Something sweet making aunt
go crazy (6)
5 Variation by mule – this being
awkward? (15)
6 Go across step half missing on
rickety ladder (8) 7 Field with only half the Spanish
football team (5)
8 Thus male has no time for selfdenial, being languid (9)
14 As one outside home, very unlike welcome guest (9)
16 Possibly a sugar, not something
bitter (9)
17 One opposed gets to induce
scorn (8)
20 Having a position in power,
subsequently lambasted (6) 22 Piece of poetry from somewhere in Switzerland, unfinished? (5)
24 Call and sink into chair maybe
after six (5)