DFA Cryptic Crossword

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

1 Endorse. 5 Leisure. 9 Perturbed. 10 Aesop. 11 Roadie. 12 Artistes. 14 A flea in ones ear. 17 Monkey wrenches. 21 Spare-rib. 23 Big top. 25 Ingot. 26 Telephoto. 27 Germane. 28 Nursery.

1 Expert. 2 Dorsal fin. 3 Routine. 4 Elba. 5 Lederhosen. 6 Imagine. 7 Upset. 8 Exposure. 13 Tin whistle. 15 Electrode. 16 Amassing. 18 Electra. 19 Chipper. 20 Spooky. 22 Anger. 24 Plan.

ACROSS

1 Sent into retirement to publish and to inform (3,3,2,5)

10 Send out in note (5)

11 Chemicals providing salty components in whips (9)

12 Perfect score by lonely heart sees off Williams (9)

13 Every one is after top end fruit (5) 14 Adroit handling to retain university book reviewer (7)

17 A canoe moving around island of the South Pacific (7)

18 Gardner follows Mama with vegetable (7)

20 Stranger doomed to be loveless without British title (7)

23 Come back inside grey hound (5) 24 Affirmative tyre ad made in the last 24 hours (9)

27 Set to work rebuilding motor (3-6) 28 Copper reversed atmosphere of

Roman court (5)

29 Tedious task to properly grade hop with all its steps laid out (13)

DOWN

2 Complete change starting to unsettle title holder of the Ashes (1-4)

3 Each goes inside open gorge (7)

4 Snack bar centrally located, in cost terms (5)

5 Do not hear crash when driving (2,3,4) 6 Slip back into part of the church after some religion (7)

7 Carried off us instead (9)

8 SA cricketer in favour of a break from the game (6)

9 Mahatma’s final distressing disorder (6) 15 Hold chits in pieces of wash rag (9) 16 All set for study year on the state of Africa (5,2,2)

18 Man of the cloth put upstart in his box (6)

19 Changes to a rare method of breaking up the soil (7)

21 Can keep exercising some of the joint (7)

22 Distress call on workers’ holiday (6) 25 Navigate some of the back streets (5) 26 Middle eight to break up dreadful lament (5)