THE BS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Rap a dog and give it gout! (7) 5 Freckle, perhaps viewed with

interest by astronomers (3-4) 8 Some dumb elector in the

botanical gardens (5) 9 Dance and tea for three (3-3-3) 11 Note there's not much fishing

equipment (4,1,3,5) 13 Anguish descriptive of

Scrooge losing a pound (6) 16 Form of transport on or in the

post (8) 18 Beach jumper (4-4) 19 Braggarts put flyer in ship (6) 24 Look up a bill and make good

use of it (4,2,7)

26 Overall, buffoon does idiotic

end (5,4)

27 Almost all choose fresh

salmon (5)

28 Saves a signal for action to be

included in the final address (7) 29 Chopped dill into a kind of

bean? Hardly (7)

DOWN

1 Preserve a choice pickle (4,3) 2 Adulterates and withdraws support? (7)

3 Is she made of precious metal, mostly (5)

4 They're on foot, but not like

an infantry ? (6)

5 Complaint about quiet little

beast (8)

6 Makes a choice of pointed tools (5) 7 She does crafty modelling on

loudmouth's departure ! (5) 10 In drink, can maybe appear

an entertaining fellow (7) 12 If we are around to find a

mate (4) 14 Shakespeare character wearing

a Hindu dress upside-down (4) 15 The one alluded to, it seems,

as a `judge' (7)

17 Is not organised by the

people one speaks of (8) 20 Affected with slight insanity (7) 21 Maybe fits in, say, to meet

the need (7)

22 He and that son of his raise

questions on TV (6) 23 Awkward problem for

features creator? (5) 24 Human or hat, they're

manipulated (5)

25 A hundred parasites come

back to see him (5)

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