SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 The card-player’s double date? (4,2,4 ) 6 Round and round and round time after time he goes (4)

10 Dance over at Pete’s, doing the twist (3-4) 11 Inquire into the man I found floating in the river (7)

12 Part of the office building one can’t manage to use (5-4) 13 Signs the big fellows in (5)

14 What a poor plot of ground isn’t, on a good one? (5)

15 Heart-whole, as one could never imagine being (5-4)

17 Stows away one can, then stops (5,2,2) 20 Ways in which some contrived to circumvent the dead end (5) 21 Perhaps shouting “Shoo!” at the animal (5) 23 A drink that won’t relax you? (9)

25 She’s all set, no matter how, to capture the point (7)

26 Come out, or mean to come out, at a quarter past (7)

27 Lump together into one state (4)

28 With a certain awe, forced an entry with a lever (10)

DOWN

1 The waters capsized the vessel (5)

2 A new client is brought round for the firm (9)

3 It’s great on the other side (3,2,4,5)

4 Gives one the information that it’s pointless? (4,3)

5 Don’t supply with enough females? (7)

7 Not a fate that’s to be yours! (5)

8 They manage to get across to the witnesses (9)

9 It shows how angry one is at the clue for “gear” (8,2,4)

14 Fantasy of playing for Scotland? (4-5)

16 And under-cut the time after, which was unnecessary (9) 18 Having been willing to return the collection to the gallery (7)

19 Might it even conceal a lack of experience? (7) 22 I don’t agree to put up the money (5) 24 Piping up: “Animals with their young” (5)