CRYPTIC Crossword

✚ Complete the puzzle to reveal two solutions in the shaded squares, relating to the picture clues.

PICTURE CLUES

23ac, 26ac & 2dn, 5dn, 16ac

ACROSS

6 A loud bull? Must have seen one of these animals (3) 7 Conciliators cannot be a lawyer (9)

8 A stripe in a buff colour? (6) 11 Perhaps Odysseus embraced an epic poem (8) 12 Nepal art is all to do with the father (8)

14 A rope washer (6)

16 See 2 Down

17 Tom left his strange looking gumboots? Not really (5) 18 Andrew is evidently a bit intelligent (4)

19 Moderator Tom left being a fan (6)

21 You add in to cling to the outside wall covering (8)

23 & 26ac He has a hard road to ride on in this movie (8,6) 27 Toby loped? Must be his body fluid sort (5,4)

28 Marsh of iron to the north (3)

DOWN

1 Carton band showed it was hot to handle (10)

2 & 5dn, 16ac Three each week must have been bad in this movie (4,4,4)

3 Aspirin? Ha! Need more than that for a bite from these (8)

4 A carpenter’s tool from West Paris (3,3)

5 See 2 Down

9 No brie found in the breweries – only jugs (5) 10 Potassium, iodine and nitrogen make up these relations (3)

13 Diary 99 is full of reason (5) 15 Heroines we arranged to meet this President (10) 17 Rattle-brained Linda left her hair tie (8)

18 This is the result of her husband being late (5) 20 Think count (6)

22 They initially offer cover with some tobacco (3)

24 Leer but go back to the French (4)

25 See the oriental agent (4)