CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1.

Keeping one’s fingers warm, being in cahoots (4,2,5)

They are briefly written and made of stone (5)

Distinguished view of X may be mine (7)

Hangs around, its role being uncertain (7)

An overlarge vehicle for an award (5)

The pace in which one takes things as they come (6)

Play this creature and appear dead (6)

Sol and the old boy returning for something extra (5)

It occurs when father comes back quietly among the layers (7)

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Sure, it’s in the concert – ain’t it? (7)

Mass of metal entered in reverse order of parts (5)

The effect is to study the series of things following (11)

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24. DOWN 1.

Manages the situation by coming to grips with them? (7)

An even neater painter from France (7)

The upshot is the children a couple have (5)

‘While ______ Joan doth keel the pot’ (LLL) (6)

River of gold in company with nothing in it (7)

Give one for one, look, in just retribution (3)

Frighten one from the crude terror that surrounds it (5)

Feeling of contempt for Dad is in dubious form (7)

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Small automatic weapon that sent gnu packing (4-3)

Old French bagpipe set with its damper around (7)

It may vary, the money one gets back (6)

Puts money on defence players

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French soldier gets back up about the fuel (5)

Fabulous bird will sway, one is told (3)

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SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: Across

8. Antidote 9. Rheumy 10. Safe-keeping 11. Son 13. Slope 15. Requisite 17. Computer science 19. Telescope 21. Entry 23. Gin 24. Carburettor 27. Mirage 28. Imperial

1. Intaglio 2. Pike 3. Honey 4. People’s Republic 5. Pronounce 6. Per 7. Import 12. Astern 14. Poppet 16. Stockades 18. Corporal 20. Elixir 22. Crepe 25. Turk 26. Yaw

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