THE BS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Stabbed king — fined, beaten

up (6)

5 Actors missing Hanks film (4,4) 9 Green grain, not for cooking (8) 10 Red rag in the road for the

levelling equipment (6) 11 Knock the stuffing out of the last six-point, present-time rate (10)

12 Do a good one, and it will be

repaid by chance! (4) 13 Commands and the ship's

officers who give them out? (8) 16 Pipes to drag over garbage

can (6)

17 I go into Rocky Coast for a

concave moulding (6)

19 The diner, seedy, is losing

money (2,3,3)

21 They never leave us, we've

been told (4)

22 She's not prepared to be

dictated to (4,6) 25 Commences with requests

within! (6)

26 Peculiar ruling, as ordered (8) 27 Taxes fool with several

crooked letters (8)

28 Firms prepared to provide TLC (6)

DOWN

2 Semi-desert area, say, in

western half of Nevada (5) 3 Loud financial setback for a dental cleaner from Florence? (5)

4 Half made a stand, and that's

most highly valued (7) 5 Coppers taking in sailor raising a weapon (7)

6 I get out of suit, eat rotten eggs and propose (7) 7 With a reversible cushion

furniture is versatile (9) 8 Departure from the accepted norm by Lincoln's bishop at an Anglican church (9) 14 Ridiculously, he scorns a

retired woman (9)

15 Decide I need, however, to

call in (9)

18 Employs a couple of hundred

at first and charges (7) 19 Architectural taxes? (7) 20 Change it I can't — it's so big (7) 23 Issues the first pair, yours

and mine (5)

24 Look — rates have changed (5)