SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Why you’re not telling anybody (7,6)

8 There’s a nicer, new way to install the tank (7) 9 Flood the mountlet (7) 11 Gather the alternative is to get caught in a swamp (6)

13 Produce the boy and you scold him (8)

15 Take that and don’t worry! (5)

16 Piece the American agents set about getting (7)

18 A deer? No, signor, it’s a child (7)

19 Is to be found and is to be returned to the man (5)

21 Getting to every single one in the gang (8) 23 Are about to give you the account (6)

25 It enters into the knotty problem the schoolboy’s working on! (3-4)

26 Peter exploded about the French, unable to take any more (7)

28 Out less than the others? By no means! (3,2,3,5)

DOWN

2 Book store (7)

3 Are in competition with the West, finally, you see (3)

4 Not turning the key when there’s a sound (4) 5 Gather breaking in the back-door was quite satisfactory (6,4)

6 See eye to eye and are in correspondence (5) 7 Exaggerate the part you play in capturing the girl within a month (7) 8 Resign yourself and agree on a price (4,2,5) 10 By which a reflective glance is cast? (3,5,3) 12 Holding a stalk as you cook it (5)

14 Handing over the job (10)

17 Points to the woman whowill succeed (5) 18 With swagger, giving a party on the coast in Spain (7)

20 Starred in “The Errant Merchants” (7)

22 Laugh over it when. I go to the country (5) 24 Try to make the half four, for instance, back

(4)

27 To shorten the jetty a little would be very easy (3)