SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Come out holding a light, to find the bird (7)

5 Fish only after the hailstorm (7)

9 Say in German: “Mother lost her head” (5) 10 “Beef,” you write in, “and chips” (9) 11 Thought I would, myself, go through the official paper (6)

12 Ran like mad with the steer stampeding (8)

14 Even tips the girl who will succeed (5) 15 Turned up in the clump of trees ours were tangled up in (9)

18 Be obviously surprised by, as you set out for home (5,4)

20 Succeeded, when again in a rage (5) 22 Return when the person’s out, with a key (8)

24 Would be the logical conclusion, you understand (6)

26 Opening with a number about a raging storm (5,4)

27 Fat orders going to the East (5) 28 Search the bag and there’s a row about it (7)

29 There’s a lot of water around the car in the shelter (7)

Yesterday’s solutions: Across: Down: DOWN

1 But dogs with such energy are more frisky than others (9)

2 Seats for the women the hairdresser’s working on? (7)

3 Yes, it does constitute a contract (9) 4 Nothing to eat! (4)

5 Eluding capture? That’s disgusting! (4,2,4) 6 Left one on edge, losing a day in Belgium (5)

7 Early flyers the man is among (7)

8 Fed up when it’s bound around one’s hand (5)

13 Traumatic experience the bald man would like to have (5,5)

16 A bad shade – sickly (3-6)

17 Giving a last mew: not rattled (9)

19 Was a smuggler, too, but got nowhere (4,3)

21 Take over someone else’s job with ease (7)

22 Upset, too, you mention (5)

23 Is to be moved to a place in Italy (5) 25 Getting support, stop working (4)

- 1 Private reason. 8 Cistern. 9 Torrent. 11 Morass. 13 Generate. 15 There. 16 Segment. 18 Bambino. 19 Sited. 21 Reaching. 23 Relate. 25 Sea-mile. 26 Replete. 28 Not in the least.

- 2 Reserve. 3 Vie. 4 Tone. 5 Rather good. 6 Agree. 7 Overact. 8 Come to terms. 10 The mind’s eye. 12 Steam. 14 Assignment. 17 Ensue. 18 Bravado. 20 Traders. 22 Haiti. 24 Urge. 27 Pie.

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