THE BS CROSSWORD

# 3138

ACROSS

1 Are they not for walking on bare boards? (6-8) 10 Dogsbody, in turn, sent

up arbitrator (5)

11 Is thus a non-drinker getting sore and making it fast? (9)

12 Broadcast a tirade

perhaps (7)

13 I love to be in a play, or a

small scene at least (7) 14 About the city rising too

(5)

16 A girl comes up with stories that show inconsistencies (9)

19 The little tender drifted off is the awful conclusion (6,3)

20 Take notice, but don't

retire (3,2)

22 Capital fellow, the chief!

(7)

25 Being safe in the end is

guaranteed (7)

27 Genial man's shuffling

with No 1 seraph (4,5) 28 Balanced by a peer (5) 29 Airy way to take a short

cut? (2,3,4,5)

DOWN

2 Help finish off a vital merger with loud interjections and a sworn declaration (9) 3 Protective clothing for one leaving the car, so to speak (5)

4 Not wild about the

artist's study as a means

of getting the business know (5,4)

5 We hear he pillaged

while he played (5) 6 Muscles that alert cops need to develop (9)

7 I laze about and do little, my girl ! (5)

8 Coloured lights in glass

perhaps (7)

9 Fungus spoilt a cigar (6) 15 Served when the best

people come to tea? (5,4) 17 Fraternal member, though not even a peer (3,6)

18 Cover nothing less than a board game with energy during the break (9) 19 Half-dressed in scarf for the artistic community (7)

21 Turn up with divine leaf

half in water (6)

23 A GI's tax at first (5) 24 Monarch almost overthrown in African state (5)

26 Balloon finally inflates

properly (5)