GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

NO. 28,054 set by Brummie

ACROSS

9 Drive away, restricting speed initially, then create a stir (5)

10 Traveller’s hurt before

county game (5,4) 11 Mate with an unusual sibling produces litter (9)

12 Adhesive teeth quite

lacking? (5)

13 US student crosses English river, looking amorous (3-4) 15 Slippery customer takes months to track and select for jury duty (7)

17 Romeo and Oscar have sex over August (5)

18 Polish problem (3) 20 Act like a student after bad mark horror (5)

22 Military type knocked back drink when having one-on-one (7) 25 Hebe variety planted in front of one’s busy workplace (7)

26 Indian archway not suitably constructed to frame ancient deity (5) 27 Invitation postponed when sewer inspection fails to start (4,5) 30 Universities collectively taking climber the distance (3,6)

31 Barnet seals? (5)

DOWN

1 Produce whip (4) 2 Robin Hood’s situation: showing ring, truly desperate to take a wife (8)

3 Where some may learn of drug (speed) (4) 4 Burn with very little smoke and turn to dust (8) 5 Surrey’s top feature, musically (6) 6 Device for carrying back, say, fatty mixture (10)

7,28 Rather crude bitter? A familiar complaint (6,4) 8 Horse sucks energy

from flower (4) 13 Kinks to play winter sport stadium at first (5) 14 Hollywood star who once shone at the top (3,7)

16 Writer’s place in

the wilds? (5)

19 Fine material from Dylan: ‘Chuck the Alien’ (8) 21 Led away from exceedingly awkward pressing need (8) 23 Oscar-winning film: King Sebastian (6)

24 Lives round New Badger, like Cinderella (2,4) 26 Tip: it’s an inheritance

limitation (4)

28 See 7

29 Plonker from Stanislavski’s school (4)