SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Either really great or absolutely awful ( 9) 6 Very little difference ( 5)

9 Tells one how old the fruit is? ( 5)

10 You must be, to have it ( 9)

11 Have a drink with the people getting off the boat: foreigners ( 10)

12 Said ‘ It’s as far up as you can go, pet’ ( 4) 14 Fancy you’ll do better with the pudding ( 7)

15 On the day, teased about being so very keen ( 4,3)

17 Horses held in by servicemen ( 7)

19 New and not yet harassed? ( 7)

20 A quarter to a half inch apiece ( 4) 22 Pretty girl popular with search parties? ( 4- 6)

25 Having a rival cheat one, getting sore ( 9) 26 Rocks are things fishermen know all about ( 5)

27 Go through the letters for a while ( 5) 28 Food for five, the last one gets ( 9)

DOWN

1 The sea- man’s award ( 5)

2 A sheet of music? ( 9)

3 Thanks to Sam, Ann is going out with Australians ( 10)

4 Late deliveries awaited ( 7)

5 Got mixed up with a revolutionary who’d gone to jail ( 7)

6 Position one inset wrongly ( 4)

7 Getting a line, called one on leaving ( 5) 8 Introduced as ‘ The editor we now have’ ( 9)

13 What finally satisfied one’s hunger for knowledge? ( 4,6)

14 Begins making a scene, having caught mom out ( 9)

16 What the villain who fell into the vat of glue came to? ( 6,3)

18 Rose left one waiting at the rendezvous ( 5,2)

19 Endure but don’t overcome? ( 7) 21 Switch round in the boat ( 5)

23 Turning again to the gentleman on the stair ( 5)

24 Gracious me, it’s spring! ( 4)