LONDON SUNDAY TIMES CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 25 15 arm Charles’s girlfriend ( 7) 5 25 15 fairly large chop ( 7) 9 After running claiming second — such is the quality

of the English! ( 9) 10 Feature about a distance for a run? ( 5) 11 25 15 sulks around Her Majesty ( 6) 12 25 15 Switzerland move to higher position — though

dropping point with a draw ( 8) 14 Ran over problem with doctor about a small change

to pitch ( 10) 16 Objection made by female — second behind United

States ( 4) 18 Starts to get ’ orrible dizzy spell — sitting here? ( 4) 19 Broken leg bound — journo went clubbing! ( 10) 22 Attractive person takes in Algerian and large

Scottish footballer ( 8) 23 Wife at class that’s 25 15 ( 6) 26 To be against women in the Games being topless

( 5) 27 25 15 — Secure boat on river outside harbour ( 9) 28 Ordinary person regarded as certain to qualify ( 7) 29 Some correspondent is taping part of the medical

team ( 7)

Down

1 Good synchronised swimmer with sign of infection

put on weight ( 7) 2 Illumination needed now it’s near end of event ( 5) 3 East African reran tie in dispute ( 8) 4 Den left with a strain ( 4) 5 Fool overturned trophies revealing parts of boxers’

kit ( 10) 6 Check identification when carrying 25 plant ( 6) 7 It’s a pain to try and go round small bay ( 9) 8 25 15s with good shots in the archery ( 7) 13 Thousandth cooked meal and I’m ill around start of

sprint ( 10) 15 See 25 17 Being sneaky, China let international hide a

complex substance found in membranes ( 8) 18 Swimmer, 19, in the middle chasing German ( 7) 20 Exercise in river and street is hardest to understand

( 7) 21 Strange result in 11’ s home ground? ( 6) 24 Cutter’s second going round 25 tree in New Zealand

( 5) 25/ “Decrepit end of Stratford. 15 It’ll change with games taking place around it”

— Lord Coe perhaps ( 4,9)