The Herald (South Africa)

cryptic crossword

- © The Telegraph Group Ltd, London 2000

ACROSS

1 Exemption from keeping me heldregula­rly (7)

5 Send on rugby player? (7)

9 Woodwind instrument­s not following stringed instrument­s (5)

10 Beginning to gossip with a slur -- our drunk's talkative (9)

11 Control by foreign military craft (10)

12 Jetty parking that is next to river (4)

14 However choppy neither vessel leaves island (12)

18 Doctor slips hurrying out of hospital unexpected­ly (12)

21 Partly open a container (4)

22 Check pins and notice bends (10)

25 Fake restrictio­n needing no introducti­on (9)

26 Half baked crackers son leaves (5)

27 Some from Brazil are negative about army officer (7)

28 Struggle to learn ahead of examinatio­n (7)

DOWN

1 Flower caught on bird (6)

2 Tempt European with time in French city (6) 3 Despair as novel about Portugal vanishes (10)

4 I'm right to remove leaders to get power (5)

5 Got inside military shelter with English knight left behind (9)

6 Rake to stir up small leaves (4)

7 Silver ring an American scratched -- is Edward worried? (8)

8 Attractive person losing last hair, upset (8)

13 Thought about fine lesson read in church (10)

15 Something vital from German city -- it's picked up by almost everyone (9)

16 Taking off after key found on computer? It's what prisoner might be doing (8)

17 Forming response, Charlie moves to the front (8)

19 Tea leaf, in the main (6)

20 Faction to follow in cricket? (6)

23 Criticise current Conservati­ve anxiety (5)

24 Pretty loud tune (4)

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