CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Tunic Al used when he was mad? (7)

5. Kid: what’s Hell for? (7)

9. Swollen? Ned did set out to be so (9)

10. How one used to be dressed was fatiguing (5)

11. Scot’s own self gets Ian back, to Nell’s confusion (8)

12. Gun I’m about quietly to call in question (6)

14. He starts the fight with Roger’s gas supply (9)

16. The Terriers get a letter from Greece (5)

17. Offer an inducement to make MEP TT (5)

19. The wretched man Nat’s crime, perhaps (9)

21. A rogue taking Academicians to California (6)

22. They think too much of themselves to go it with Tess (8)

26. Move for a time at work (5)

27. ‘I will arise and go now, and go to __’ (Yeats) (9)

28. Hurried along to the Deep South, returning before the editor (7)

29. He uses money to send rep packing (7)

DOWN

1. With a cargo 50 go to Yemeni port (5)

2. Making a home, no good for getting round establishment in (7)

3. Kept woman MI’S abandoned for hair (5)

4. Huggable: couldmedes be otherwise? (10)

5. Find her for the three-card trick (4)

6. It shows the flier how far down the ground is (9)

7. As hairy as her suit might be (7)

8. No longer wanted to be embarrassed: mistakenly dun worker! (9)

13. They forced people to serve papers on criminal bands (5-5)

14. They make the reader see stars (9)

15. Drew out what Tex carted around (9)

18. When bullet’s not shot if miser can’t make it (7)

20. Made certain of being a fool with rude adjustment (7)

23. Flavour, thanks to the wrong set (5)

24. Vow one wears the last first (5)

25. What blows looks as though it will crank (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Precipitate 8. Aquatint 9. Open 10. Shrew 13. Nave 16. Cool

17. Chic 18. Lull 20. Actor 24. Unit 25. Together 26. Continental Down: 2. Rout 3. Catch 4. Pence 5. Acorn 6. Watercolour 7. Intercalary

11. Rioja 12. Waist 14. Ache 15. Bowl 19. Let on 21. Clown 22. Olein

23. Rhea