CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Game to upset a spiteful woman (6)

Brown boy’s pears (8)

A New Zealander with taste (4)

Barking sailor? (3,3) Arraign Charlie at the central court in a bad case (6) Author Wallace (not Edgar) from Isleworth (3)

They have strings one ties in a knot at the weekend (5) Like the piper you need for some lieder at the piano (4) Kept in the studio still (5) David’s part of Wales? (5) Wherein to fight for a warmhearted woman (5) Upright part of a Christmas tree (4)

26 Make to arise? (5)

28 A writer’s point (3)

29 Out of date actor in town (6)

Where to shoot past, going round the island (6)

To the Yankee, everybody’s a friend (4)

The last imaginable feline or horse (8)

Organ of an active kind, with a key part (6)

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DOWN

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SOS put out as a chancy thing (4-2)

Take refuge in extremes of cold when castigated (6) A minor branch, you understand (4)

Airman touring a rocket centre showing little activity (7)

Finished in German style (5) 6 8

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24 Trophy hotly contested (5) Beer with a portion of duck and a vegetable (4) Gosh how it goes up and down! (3)

Heroic old police department? (3)

Tennis stars still having growing potential? (5) Uplands, oddly enough (5) The one bargain that couldn’t be better (5) Writer of some poetry (3) Naval section of the horse artillery (3)

Very much like Britain? (7) A hush in the wood (3) Smiled wryly when tricked (6)

Well, not less than famously (4)