Puzzles Rosebud, Sudoku and Codebreaker

Across

8/24D You’ll only gain what you bet

for the price you get. (4,5)

9 Stop motion to order debatable

issues. (4,6)

10 Open Sesame? No go: not the right

note, apparently! (5,3)

11 Rest for those taking right turn. (6) 12 It’s the ignominy that has me in a

flux. (5)

13 After everything else, cobblers still

make do with it. (4)

15 A jockey, well-known, who’s as hard

as stone? (4)

18 If looking for direction, this could

not be more direct. (15)

20 A bit of bother for Lady Macbeth?

(4)

21 See 7D

22 Save for future use If there’s money

in store. (5)

25 Waving a scarf around may cause an uproar for the French. (6)

27 How can you put a word to such delusions of greatness? O, I manage somehow! (8)

28 With her funny appearance she

won’t mind being laughed at! (10) 29 Repeat word-for-word. (4)

Down

1 It’ll never be said of a War Poet’s writing, though a good few went that way fighting. (4,3,3)

2 A name without a name on many a

variation. (6)

3 See 4D

4/3D Appropriate exclamation on seeing unexpected Pope elected? (4,5)

5 Share equal option. (9)

6 Oh so erudite – like the late Sir Roger

Moore? (8)

7/21A Rats! What an impressive

performance! (4,4)

14 Revise later. (5)

16 It’s your privilege from day one...not

left to everyone. (10)

17 Swollen head? Ice tea, we hear, is got

to order. (9)

19 These are cases only for diplomats to

handle. (8)

23 Give a sage initial dues about those

sayings. (6)

24 See 8A

26 Another demonstration following on

the 25th. . (4)

27 For some she’s named namelessly. (4)