Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Can coil around while saying little (7)

5. With no end of muck, cubs may give way under pressure (7)

9. Large receptacle taken by train once? (9)

10. One to fool about with leaf in a book (5)

11. Fictional space vehicle parish puts out on the street (8)

12. Bad smell of sulphur on fish (6)

14. Previous case establishe­s how decent rep could be (9)

16. One who gets up a part of the stair (5)

17 How to rob a machine-man? (5)

19. A sure thing for TT race in York – the first (9)

21. One might vary a place where the birds are (5)

22. RAs upset if one puts them out to grass (8)

26. Something more available in the next ration (5)

27. Start something in gear (one to be changed) (9)

28. Stories about the New Testament money of those times (7)

29. Fail to care for the glen, etc, in the confusion (7)

DOWN

1. Shuts away the tresses (5)

2. Study a hole in the rock that’s curving inwards (7)

3. Gets close to the North with the listeners (5)

4. A secret one tells with self-assurance (10)

5. The kind one can put into categories (4)

6. Place to eat if race is abandoned (9)

7. Lands up switching places in hilly country (7)

8. Is kind of fraternal (9)

13. Extreme hunger has variants to show for it (10)

14. It may apply to a wave that’s meant to last (9)

15. Have guests come in with a tin perhaps (9)

18. It may be the fashion to have port (7)

20. Give a commentary on art, near its compositio­n (7)

23. An inanimate object could have a hint of gravity (5)

24. The way we set about the afters (5)

25. The chief stud, it may be (4)

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