Rosebud, Sudoku and Codebreaker

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Across

8 See 7D

9 2001: alarming number remembered by everyone. (4,6)

10 Free to say I bale RTÉ out? (8)

11 How you might empty the Rebel

County of its bottle... (6)

12 ...is how one might do for you in the

bad times! (5)

13 Show a bit of leg. (4)

15 From a diagonal insight comes a calculating Shakespearean character. (4)

18 Titanic hit...this, as charted. (2,5,4,2,2) 20 Advance slowly to gain advantage.

(4)

21 See 25A

22 To an old Roman, Mars would be that first sign that’s all Greek to the rest of us. (5)

25/21A No, I decline to disclose who

rose after Titanic hit. (6,4)

27 In turn...o deliver us all from this one!

(8)

28 areful, soup curls you hear when

stirred! (10)

29 Instrument of mendacity by the

sound of it. (4)

Down

1 Not at all put out? Yes and I’m endlessly due to be put out! (10) 2 c t (6)

3 Furtive one...like one in the grass becomes. (5)

4 Formerly apparent in concession. (4) 5 You’d really have to say Mario does Miriam O’Callaghan with authenticity! (9)

6 You can learn from it without doing it and do it if you’ve learned from it. (8) 7/8A O, ain’t RTÉ about to go for it with

relish? (4,4)

14 O, who’s around to question? (3,2)

16 There’ll be no call for a chaperone if

one is so called! (10)

17 How unpleasant memories can be

raised...like the Titanic? (7,2)

19 Even after their time, time sure defines

the status of professors. (8)

23 Ruminating in dire difficulty loosely

explains the problem! (6)

24 Prime number in the ordinal sense. (5) 26 Engraving to carve hereby. (4)

27 School of thought some are still set

on. (4)