WH Crossword

ACROSS 7 “Saucy Sal”, perhaps? (5, 4) 8 Found out, caught and tried (5)

10 Rounded up but not rounded off (8)

11 An English bowler knocked it for six (6)

12 He’s on about being present (4)

13 The courtesy of the townsman (8)

15 Investigate cut-back at the colliery (7)

17 Plead for a fairy tale? (7) 20 Stone pitcher (8)

22 Period of time may be spring — but not winter (4)

25 Put it on without being told? (6)

26 A hostile measure (3-5) 27 Prevent the animal swallowing the tin opener (5) 28 Leave the others during a holiday abroad (5, 4)

DOWN

1 Criminal taken in hand by a bishop (5)

2 A site for a roadway (6) 3 Break bread, even in Scotland (8)

4 Preserve grim honesty (7) 5 Part of a computer network for a new tramline (8)

6 Wrongly portrayed as a hunter (9)

9 Become wedged, we hear, in the doorway (4)

14 He used tax form that’s expired (9)

16 Hands and feet, for example (8)

18 Motherly resolution to alter man (8)

19 He serves on board ship (7) 21 He employs us with hesitation (4)

23 Shows around Madras (6) 24 Has the neck to ask for credit during a slump (5)