SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 It’s wasted, lady; shut up! ( 8)

5 Step on board in the intervals ( 6)

10 Event that can be something of a scramble! ( 3,3,5,4)

11 Correspondence with the sufferers ( 7) 12 Ready to put away in the pan ( 7) 13 Worked out that a child had got stuck in the pipe ( 8)

15 Drink half of beer and it’s really good ( 5) 18 Seasons when slimming regimens go by the board ( 5)

20 Pasteboard on which a mother writes ‘ spice’ ( 8)

23 Figures the first withdrawal is from nervousness ( 7)

25 Note the girl is from NW England ( 7) 26 In which a fickle girl keeps the names of jilted boy- friends? ( 10,5)

27 What one’s paid, unfortunately, goes back to the railway ( 6)

28 Eager to come through at the seance? ( 4,4)

DOWN

1 How one said, ‘ Gracious, it’s stuffed with leek puree!’ ( 6)

2 Musical students do it in this grade badly ( 5- 4)

3 As a joke, put the gun back on the baskets ( 7)

4 When one’s out taking the sun, inside pries ( 5)

6 Bets I would turn up among the learned people ( 7)

7 Get along swimmingly in the nursery ( 5) 8 Clumsily sew the bad tears in the garments ( 8)

9 Think over a quarter have gone into the drink ( 8)

14 What you call someone to be cutting? ( 8) 16 Lying when you talk about a bad sort ( 9) 17 Starts calling Millicent Mimi ( 8)

19 With a laugh, turns and reins the gee- gee in ( 7)

21 The newly- made goal keeper improved ( 7)

22 Do take the boy in a pencil ( 6) 24 Alphabetically, he’s seventh in line, anyway ( 5)

25 Rod has a ball in the boat ( 5)