SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS DOWN

1 Try – to immunise yourself against? (4,1,4) 6 Taking under an hour to put in the plant (5)

9 Try getting transport first for the goods (5) 10 Does he uphold the beer drinkers’ slogan? (9)

11 Could be the “valse” (5,5)

12 Name of the daughter the woman is shielding (4)

14 Shows one in seven hundred to be faulty (7)

15 Takes one there and is responsible for what happens later (5,2)

17 The protectors used trickery to get the woman back inside (7)

19 Looks at the globe again: it’s ugly (7) 20 Call in the morning – half nine, about (4) 22 Highwayman? (4-6)

25 Dines out with the two, most unhappy (2,7)

26 Object when given the spare key (5) 27 Join with one in exercise (5)

28 Within a while, the weed inside damaged the flower (9) 1 Boots, though they usually wear shoes (5) 2 Talented though lit up, composed a verse about it (9)

3 A youngster needing a handout to get perfume (10)

4 Soldiers the USSR has trained (7) 5 Involved plot to get the CIA in trouble that’s making news (7)

6 Usher, to, for appearance’s sake (4) 7 Scolded for a time and embarrassed about it (5)

8 A nude girl comes in to music (9) 13 Unpumped? (4-6)

14 With something to aim for and its attainment not far away? (3,2,4)

16 Store soup? (5-4)

18 Work hard to get the answer in snappy phrases (7)

19 Give one’s approval at last, or half seem to (7)

21 Bring up as an example mother as a girl (5)

23 “Two Men” showing at “The Majestic” (5) 24 Exploited by the statesman (4)