Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Indent oneself for a piece in the paper (7)

5. A sneaker for a detective (7)

9. Blame ties that might be worth one’s good opinion (9)

10. Sit around in physical education while skiers go down it (5) 11. Three put out in that place by ether? (5)

12. Offer resistance that winds about (9)

13. Offend one making plea in changing sides (9)

16. Did one’s sums dead wrong at start of December (5)

17. Too much water to fool with on the day (5)

18. Roy rested when naval craft was around (9)

20. The one who receives tin needs recipe to cook it (9)

23. The most the Right can do is make heavy weather of it (5) 25. He’s a stranger with a line that’s different (5)

26. The state of it being a requisite (9)

27. Excavators for the Australian­s (7)

28. GC Tyne’ s awarded to the young swans (7)

DOWN

1. Was made aware by siren of late Red disturbanc­e (7)

2. A tenth the church took from it in the surroundin­gs (5)

3. Cole led PM out when made to (9)

4. Joint that might be broken below (5)

5. Somehow gets near the South with such fame (9)

6. Is listless, the way one writes poems (5)

7. Wife puts her spouse on the railway by way of thrift (9) 8. Stopped holding me for having made alteration to improve it (7)

14. Being very hot, is driving furiously (9)

15. Houses are, for theatres, due in case of change (9) 16. Garrets’s in use for taking one into custody (9)

17. Send on a letter to a footballer (7)

19. Rids men of it as it jogs their memory (7)

21. Coins that happen ceremoniou­sly to be included (5)

22. Turns into cocktail initially, to mix it with gin (5)

24. It produces oil for one in love entangleme­nt (5)

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