CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Pottery made by Mac and Eric (7)

5. Devilish cats in a whirl (7)

9. Ringing quality of voice might scare none (9)

10. Bird that’s black but not a blackbird (5)

11 Mean date could have proceeded from a source (8)

12. Have no nourishment, so look hard when it’s about five (6)

14. The big guns at the rally tire of it (9)

16. Link one forms with the beach at Sydney (5)

17. Last sceptic to do damage to an amulet (5)

19. Dropper of rubbish and grub let it out (6-3)

21. Break the law, not being on at the finish (6)

22. Act of retaliation by Pearl, Sir, is misapplied (8)

26. One rice concoction that’s more chilled (5)

27. Every three years it will let rain in somehow (9)

28. Great story about cot being made in an abnormal position (7)

29. It will heighten the effect, hence an alteration will be made (7)

DOWN 1.

Use bad language for a wicked spell (5)

2. Begin race again if starter is at fault (7)

3. IQ organisation means to change it (5)

4. Despised and neglected person in a cell, red with embarrassment (10)

5. A pace that may take one to a higher level (4)

6. It holds the record for run made in battle perhaps (9)

7. Lamb stew from Aran made with French wine (7)

8. Moving at an easy gallop as nag in cert may do (9)

13. Put together a combination of elements in the SS? Yes, possibly (10) 14. There’s a recluse in the car: nothing is to be moved (9)

15. If the sweet is sour, let it fall (5,4) 18. Calf, fit to be turned out, will distress one severely (7) 20. Defensive tower ? No: a bit’s been altered (7)

23. Hurried to church for the spread in America (5)

24. Where the French surrounding the sick are industrious (5) 25. It’s about the ear of it in company that turns up (4)