Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. They’re red yellow and green and one pelts them with shot (7)

5. Booze? Oh, local can supply that (7)

9. Open first cricket Test about seven weeks after Easter (9)

10. Plainsong is the Gregorian way to sing (5)

11. Tell union leader about what’s material (5)

12. A torturer from Rome Trent routed (9)

13. Turn to Ma, or taste the Sunday joint? (5,4)

16. Photograph­er’s length of return to California (5)

17. Group of plotters coming out of Manila backwards (5)

18. Made Bruce cane a piratical adventurer (9)

20. As pious as a monk can be (9)

23. Acres laid out for speed trials (5)

25. This circle may be privileged to be on-target (5)

26. St Petersburg was grand: line to it was altered (9)

27. Is either rumpled or provided with a knife-edge (7)

28. Scheme one devised for something like a shirt (7)

DOWN

1. Leading singer of rap tops (the charts?) (3,4)

2. List of jurors responsibl­e for penal reform (5)

3. A disembodie­d spirit may have driven Lee mad (9)

4. Take a picture of a sprout (5)

5. Cart one can’t use around the South Pole (9)

6. Secret store of money, by the sound of it (5)

7. To cheat her, a way to bring about anguish (9)

8. It is not a metaphoric­al mistake to print it (7)

14. One may be flat out in it going flat out (9)

15. Entangled with the mob, relied on getting out of it (9)

16. Sweet smell created by newspaper in country across the Channel (9)

17. Such arrest as is heart-stopping (7)

19. What was left one reused, recycled (7)

21. Their night out is a hen party (5)

22. In such a boom coins may have to be changed (5)

24. First customer to change giro is a dog (5)

Previous solution

Across: 1. Paralyse 5. Crater 10. Exact 11. Sacrament 12. Interim13. Titular 14. Corral 16. Reverse 19. Trigger 21. Affair 25. Pageant 26. Caution 28. Tarpaulin 29. Imari 30. Sister 31. Reindeer.

Down: 1. Precinct 2. Reactor 3. Later 4. Sesame 6. Roast beef 7. Trebles 8. Return 9. Scatter 15. Aggravate 17. Fertile 18. Frontier 20. Regards 22. Animate 23. Spates 24. Sconce 27. Union.

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