CROSSWORD

Puzzle No 1085

Clues across

1. Crazy creative man in a Cherokee perhaps (6,8) 10. Account in debit having followed the horses (5) 11. Where one might try to woo and return to berth (9) 12. A bit confused about a sales manager showing a grain favoured with curry (7) 13. Most certain about nothing but the most rancid (7) 14. Challenged by Republican leader in late return (5) 16. Ail badly beginning to get night out on landing (9) 19. Official makes famous person mouth off (9) 20. Roadside breakdown, no air, given medication (5) 22. Mad man sold nuts (7) 25. A hooligan from Mofcow? (7) 27. Trendy, tricky clues – about four – across the board (9) 28. City built from a hard rock in places (5) 29. Ted eats shampoo mistakenly for cottage pie topping (6,8)

Clues down

2. Inherited Lancaster bombed (9) 3. Country team batting with 501 by the beginning of the afternoon (5) 4. CIA handle corrupt Mexican offering (9) 5. Where rugby players get together to rebuild a slum (5) 6. Heed court order to be given a little improvement (9) 7. Sliced a bit of garlic (5) 8. A magnet designed as a label for people (4,3) 9. Make fun of someone in bed being bought (6) 15. Poor bet: endure a company’s acknowledgement of debt (9) 17. Meet in secret arrangement on time (9) 18. Sit in goes wrong, journalist’s headline scandal is prompt (9) 19. Brain box is to pack it in with uni collapsing internally (7) 21. The kind of treatment that is really in your face … (6) 23. … makes fun of loose garments lacking an opening (5) 24. Invest 1000 in bypass to cut corners (5) 26. American poet, father and drunken sot (5)