The Star Early Edition

SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 The girl with the glasses? (7)

5 Are women dying to wear them? (7)

9 A drink at lights out? (5)

10 An artist in copper (9)

11 Bids, but it’s gone to Elizabeth The Second (6)

12 Without paying a bawbee? (4-4)

14 See one go outside the hut (5)

15 Says hello, the sound of the voice revealing coldness (9)

18 The distributo­r is complainin­g (6,3)

20 It’s green – and big, because I fit into it (5)

22 Miss America goes in for revelry (8) 24 Turn the art model out into the passage (6)

26 The silly goon went into Milan, made up as an Asiatic (9)

27 Retreats when the Scandinavi­an has one trapped (5)

28 For the latest developmen­ts, going to an Eastern US port (7)

29 What it costs to have water-girt enclosures (7)

DOWN

1 Giving the champion the ball to shoot (9) 2 Order in flour, to cook for a lot of people (7)

3 Post a number over sometime during the day (9)

4 Love game, perhaps? (4)

5 What actors do when learning their lines – or soldiers (10)

6 Group of the Month – and abroad, too (5) 7 Don’t allow love to catch up with me! (7) 8 The lady is upset by the riddle (5)

13 Brag that you’re a photograph­er on a job (5,1,4)

16 Though only a small blunder, could get one dismissed (5,4)

17 If the light’s poor it’s not and that’s obvious (4,2,3)

19 And taking the girl out on the terrace (7) 21 From the street, at first, returning to the depot (7)

22 Adds up to 100? There’s some mistake! (5)

23 The craft has more or less capsized (1-4) 25 In the old days, a person had a key to go in (4)

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