Crossword

Across

8 Ain’t about to be against...(4)

9 ...the one in charge who should be charged above all...(10)

10 ...doing a bit of sharp practice that’s

really pretty petty. (8)

11 Out for a spell: please disturb! (6)

12/5D Know what to do if Information Technology’s driving you round the bend? (5,5,2,2)

13 Teutonic name: should come back to

you just the same. (4)

15 No German? (4)

18 Sss...hhh! Make a sound and the ice will

melt, so to speak. (5,3,7)

20 This god-damned place is beyond belief!

(4)

21 The big ones we like to keep in hand? (4) 22 Check, you hear, a harp should be

returned to this republic’s capital. (5)

25 I now know I need debts to be repaid

thus. (2,4)

27 r r r r r r r r (8)

28 How and where the enemy lay...within

Troy and without? (2,3,5)

29 Ok in a blunt way, as any pig-in-the

middle might say!(4)

Down

1 Slight as the chances are, could this be the mystery of the Trinity? (3,2,5)

2 Would you put a match to such books online like Fahrenheit 451? (6)

3 Down it goes there to waste away... (5)

4 ...tucked in the pub where arms would be raised? (4)

5 See 12A

6 It’s never easy for non-natives to dig it, in a manner of speaking. (8) 7 See 26D

14 Subject for some with emeritus.

(5)

16 A hundred in here not out. That’s

unclear. (10)

17 Sad story initially got out: they

have no homes to go to. (5,4)

19 Nothing left? Ok. (3,5)

23 Poker stoker with a diamond

hand? (3-3)

24/27D You’ll get this in a heartbeat at arms length from the heart. (5,4)

26/7D Mark well, as Mark Antony

might have put it. (4,4)