Sunday Times

CRYPTIC CLUES

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ACROSS

1 Snapping won’t stop them working (7)

5 Colour pea is? Could be? (5) 8 Drink nothing in race (3) 9 Sound aggressive, left among disorderly brutes (7) 10 It could make Brown Green — or Black! (5)

11 Hero sounds lazy (4) 12 Splendid — and a source of interest, too (7)

14 Reveal river is full of naval types (6)

16 It won’t be if let out (6) 19 Painstakin­g use of fur and lace (6)

21 Set of rules understood by very few? (4)

24 Alert enough to cause a wicked reversal (5)

25 Shivered out East (where as a Muslim he belongs) (7) 26 Upright person doesn’t do it — if upright (3)

27 Exploiters needn’t be artisans to use them (5)

28 The Law dislikes his stocktakin­g methods (7)

DOWN

1 Young animal on a distant island (4) 2 Shape damp can create? (5) 3 Agitates, having let rats loose (7)

4 After slow start, vehicle impressed (6)

5 Conveyance depends on right one being used (5)

6 It could belong to a watchdog (7)

7 Seaman thus gets old instrument complete (8) 13 Inclinatio­n writer has to sing (8)

15 Cop mixed up in riot in building entrance (7)

17 Guards on the way (7)

18 It’s powerless in the air (6) 20 Flues suitable for peat, coal and logs (5)

22 Such training can be a bore (5)

23 Cleaner fish (4)

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