The Southland Times

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1. Tom has angle on Silurus glanis (7) 5. Here, fuddled in cup, one should feel happier (5,2) 9. Like picture that’s been traced in the red? (9) 10. Carved onyx arrived with the ring (5) 11. Of the home party, somehow ties in with master of ceremonies (8) 12. Doing time on the team? (6) 14. One who may get carried away (9) 16. ‘Strew on her __, __, And never a spray of yew’ (Arnold) (5) 17. Heavenly path: death-notice is about right! (5) 19. It shows the way one’s going to train CID with nothing (9) 21. Part of the Bible in Ireland that’s all there (6) 22. His work on figures may be exemplifie­d by the man in the street (8) 26. Sounds similar to a working dog, an early space traveller (5) 27. Birdmen with tic? (9) 28. Prince’s time at the top made Gene cry out (7) 29. Retributiv­e justice turns people to non-u issue perhaps (7)

DOWN

1. A lot of people are argumentat­ive in the Diplomatic Corps (5) 2. Mother’s to supply the vacuum flask (7) 3. River that needs to try for manufactur­e (5) 4. It may help one soundly to take things in (7-3) 5. Wielding of it might have been what produced a raspberry? (4) 6. Cranky commander-in-chief upset with the centre (9) 7. Stops what’s left of one (7) 8. Chair-person in favour of iron TE Lawrence turned up (9) 13. A view of what’s corning before the way one says it (10) 14. What drives one to be decent about a length of cloth (9) 15. To be host, go in and give it an arrangemen­t (9) 18. ‘In’ the bag, holding non-drinker at home (7) 20. Sounds amused to find Tourist Trophy in rows (7) 23. He stands in for MO with copper after fifty (5) 24. Gets up a sort of series the East once abandoned (5) 25. The guy that will postpone execution? (4)

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