THE BS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Like a piece of Beethoven's, teasing with double stopping entry for cello (9) 6 Guarantee a number will get

an indication of pain (5) 9 Rain coming in? Redbacks hanging round? Call for the plumber (7) 10 A French partner in the union

going round the armoury (7) 11 Consequently taken back to

Aegean island (5) 12 Converted tribes eat sources

of power (9) 13 Boil pasta for one; "no more" (9) 15 Once a wreck, it's dug out (5) 16 Shouts out names (5) 18 Broke down when pass ran

out (9) 20 Boars stewed with malt and

another meat dish (5,4) 23 Folds a man's dinner jacket

audibly (5) 25 French dramatist is to keep

one company (7) 26 Pullovers for cattle ? (7) 27 Drops the flowers (5) 28 Money providing something

for tea perhaps (9)

DOWN

1 Reckoned total, and included

an extra 500 (5) 2 Creeper in an overall (7) 3 Giant reptiles make a racket and love southern gold, but principally really stink! (9) 4 Accountant and wife of West

Indian extraction (5) 5 The glow-worm as seen by a

bird ? (5,4) 6 Rendezvous a bit off the avenue (5) 7 Idealistic, upper class head

Scot (7) 8 Conned about politician's non-alcoholic drink in London district (9) 13 Copper mongrel fragments

gourd-like plants (9) 14 Exultant way to tap a jockey (4-1-4) 15 Talked about that strange new

creed (9) 17 As a beginner, he has only a

pound in his pay-packet (7) 19 Casually creates hidden things (7) 21 Cranky examination reaches

silly conclusion (5) 22 A trinket as a small token of thanks for the job you and I do as volunteers (5) 24 If you knew her, you'd find

what use is for her (5)