SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 1053

ACROSS

1 Record the range of tones (8)

5 Jokes about strikes? (6)

9 Attacked when made to work (6,2)

10 The limber Herbert is second in (6)

12 Recover and put on weight again (6)

13 The dog I catalogue as a boxer (8)

15 In which Jekyll became Hyde? (8-4)

18 Digest what’s been said and retract (3,4,5)

23 Measure and give one false facts about the plant (4,4) 24 Nearly a man: very much so (6)

26 Clannish. That’s the nuisance about the British (6) 27 Talk – or clam up (8)

28 Rent, we’re told, that’s gone up (6)

29 They order the dishes (8)

DOWN

1 Proceed to have another whirl (6)

2 Catch, a long time after, in the building (6) 3 The son wished to change nationality (7) 4 Black key one is about to play (4) 6 Complaining, though it’s for our protection (7) 7 Not what the wood-chuck did? (That’s very hard!) (4-4) 8 Quite a while in the former (8)

11 Clean the picture with water (7)

14 And going in, I see, for something to eat (7)

16 How the motor mechanic said ‘Let go’? (8) 17 Authenticating it, though obviously angry (8)

19 The skull of a lunatic? (3,4)

20 Either hand over or free (7)

21 Studies the ground to be run over (6)

22 Walks off, we’re told, with the sharpeners (6)

25 It would upset a hard drinker? Nonsense! (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE 1052

Across: 1 Too little. 6 Get-up. 9 Twerp. 10 Entertain. 11 Not present. 12 Inch. 14 Winston. 15 Station. 17 Disavow. 19 Pie-dogs. 20 Acts. 22 Takes a hand. 25 Asparagus. 26 Onion. 27 Eerie. 28 Endurance.

Down: 1 Titan. 2 Overtones. 3 Imperative. 4 Treason. 5 Extends. 6 Garb. 7 Train. 8 Penchants. 13 Save labour. 14 Wide-awake. 16 Isolation. 18 Wrangle. 19 Pressed. 21 Taper. 23 Dunce. 24 Free.