CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Scoffed after material’s seen as fake (9) 9 Banality cut short by revolutionary (6) 10 Complain before coming in to get building work (9) 11 Popular commander of French using secret language (2,4) 12 Battles shown in colour in middle of night, providing satisfaction (9) 13 Not often models will be in

disarray (6) 17 Old bird from Missouri with a

following (3) 19 Crumble onion cube on meal

on rare occasions (4,2,1,4,4) 20 Length of history fellow traveller

has written out twice (3) 21 Champ’s moment of truth (6) 25 Keeping members apart, answer’s to adopt a non-committal attitude (9) 26 Clothes that are not worn out? (6) 27 Wrong thing designed, not

right it’s worn in bed (9) 28 View prison, one might say

it’s worth a look (6) 29 Out racing around battlefield (9)

DOWN

2 Come to an Irish funeral party

held inside (6) 3 What to do to end the act? (6) 4 Is the woman able to land

across the water? (6) 5 Sad lot’s noting sober religious behaviour from 4 Down (7,8) 6 Joiner in Rose’s place is restricted in vision (9) 7 Agreement needed by one

playing instrument (9) 8 Edward keeps some harmful

creatures. Not to worry! (5,4) 14 Hundred going the right way

for assembly (9) 15 Not the underclothes to be removed — rascal! (9) 16 Socialist record to the fore, it can amount to disgrace (9) 17 Miss West moaned at regular

intervals (3) 18 A couple of lines, that’s

everything (3) 22 Harp on about unfortunate

youngster (6) 23 Scored slowly (6) 24 Angry look from head of

gardeners and inferior (6)