Crossword

Across

8 Stop eating that food. (4)

9 They will allow you to eat your words before throwing your weight around! (10)

10 Declared to be what the magistrate

would have to supplement around. (8) 11/15A Present-cum-past combination, perhaps, occasionally comes across. (3,3,4)

12 Finer resolution to guess correctly. (5) 13 70s comedy series was a standing

dish for couch potatoes! (4)

15 See 11A

18 We get through them any which way – inferno, tsunami – come what may. (4,2,4,5)

20 See 4D

21 See 7D

22 Got an arrangement for the dance. (5) 25 With attention you’ll hear the tinsel

rustle. (6)

27 They are ready-made graves in a war

of attrition. (8)

28 Be careful, you, this one will get stuck into your head without your consent! (4,6)

29 True grit, as shown by the soldiers on

the beaches. (4)

Down

1 Oversized flower pot you might get

from a French backyard? (10)

2 Sounds like a melody to bring into

harmony. (6)

3 Saw, you may say for the saying of it. (5) 4/20A Good for nothing if at the end of

one’s tether. (4,4)

5 She had men in perplexity with a laugh

to end for the better half of 6? (9)

6 Subject of Longfellow’s longest song?

Ah-ah, wait your turn! (8)

7/21A Deadline to press is so demanding.

(2,2,4)

14 O, mix a variation of the 3rd kind. (5) 16 No beast from the East will cut these down...unless they’re already in your homes! (10)

17 Would you believe this one has a hot

line to royalty? (9)

19 It’s an imaginary line, of course, but

scope for thought, perhaps. (8)

23 Charge – and never mind the defence

to follow.(6)

24 Defender of the faith, namely, as self

proclaimed? (5)

26 First person to tender for the same

place. (4)

27 Outstanding clue: a hyphenated fuss. (2-2)