DFA Cryptic Crossword

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across: -

1 Discrepancies. 8 Basilica. 9 Nature. 10 Dollop. 11 Entrepot. 12 Underscore. 15 Aunt.

16 Apse. 18 Dictionary. 21 Factotum. 23 Optics. 25 Course. 26 Episodic. 27 Pull the plug on.

1 Dragoon. 2 Skirl. 3 Reimposed. 4 Placebo. 5 Nonet.

6 In the main. 7 Sirloin. 13 Electoral. 14 Editorial. 17 Peasoup. 19 Compere. 20 Ruction. 22 Theft.

24 Thong.

ACROSS:-

1 Torrid times, lately, for subcontinental mathematicians? (6,7)

10 Stirrer upset cafe with lack of expression (5,4)

11 Team that catches little creep (5) 12 Predate use of bureaucracy (3,4) 13 Fresh manure encrusting love charm (7)

14 Bit of comedy about small equipment (4)

15 He attracts stranger with some difficulty (2,1,7)

18 Soldiers turned personality into identifying marks (10)

21 Computer storage is in Washington (4) 24 Language that expresses his wail (7) 26 One turned out to put one’s two cents in (7)

27 Religious types take some time in the morning? (5)

28 Nonetheless applicable for whatever price (2,3,4)

29 Have the upper hand over heavy metal, according to its odour (4,2,3,4)

DOWN:-

2 In all truthfulness, king did no wrong (2,7)

3 Attack Danish leader after on-air broadcast (6)

4 The most intimate are in the home (7) 5 American embrace of Monica is quite futile (7)

6 Church service takes care blasting wanton killing (8)

7 Throw door open to Eastern and Western competition (5)

8 Musical works of Queen used in soap production (6)

9 Chaser abandoned quest (6)

16 Roll into experiments with benches (9) 17 Made fish serve the hungry (8) 18 Parade final straws as fodder (6) 19 Based on one college attended by arty sorts (7)

20 Last words forming heap around mine (7)

22 Quick change started with crowbar (6) 23 Avoid company, if company ended in disgrace (4,2)

25 Nimble goalie clumsily dropped the ball! (5)