Sunday Times

Cryptic Crossword

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ACROSS

1 Some piping hot wraps rolled off (11)

9 County flock diminished, as some might say? (14)

11 Oven meal needing no introducti­on (4)

12 Ruin holiday (5)

13 File useless in the end, hammer nails (4)

16 Talker is remarkably bright, perhaps? (8)

17 Top bounder? (6)

19 A short over (6)

20 Preening string of feathers, smart (8)

22 Support vehicle heading west, kilometre behind (4) 23 Provided in cafe, a stonking big meal (5)

24 Observer’s problem, subeditor tampering with yesterday’s editorial, all kicking off (4)

27 Present a woman’s leg, perhaps? (8, 6)

28 Clever Dick blitzed tyrants with spam (6-5)

DOWN

2 Huge 4WD car, the real cost laughable? (7, 7)

3 Deal with fine crack (4) 4 Cricket side hit out (2, 6) 5 River bird, player of many tunes (6)

6 Small margin of victory in NW only, apparently (4)

7 Frustratin­g thing, redundancy process? (14)

8 Vaulted ceiling of green repeated in building of pale red (11)

10 Domestic restrictio­n in the main covered by period on holiday (5, 6)

14 Twinkling beam (5)

15 Prize money in small clean bags (5)

18 Good to jail son, judge has claimed — nasty little nipper? (8)

21 In audition, person singing note (6)

25 Quickly flip through second Kipling novel (4)

26 Mediterran­ean island fit for uprising? (4)

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