CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
No 16,395
ACROSS
1 Make out beauty hugging current rock musician, posh (11) 9 Cook luncheon without oxygen in submerged tube (7) 10 Rank speech, elongated to some extent (7) 11 Wool supplier from
New England (3) 12 No less than 80 initially enter after much delay (2,5) 13 Weird sort wearing nothing? It takes one’s breath away (7) 14 Shot in court liquidated old barrister principally (3) 15 Sauce is French, with Italian water round it (5) 17 Old colonist, Irish
patriot (5) 18 Scrap outhouse
Republican installed (5) 20 Dance artist embraces
university doctor (5) 22 Horse & Hound (3) 24 The reason he has
been dispatched? (7) 25 Edible plants stick
in sediment (7) 26 Tease bloke (3) 27 Regularly beat Tulsa
fanatic in gym (7) 28 Make Israel
suspect Spain (7) 29 Particular police officers can evict bats (11)
DOWN
1 Like some pieces with hyphenated names (6-9) 2 Southern city representative welcomes a French tanner (7) 3 Tiny portion of land is rented out (5) 4 Mike supports naive bouncer where actors relax (5,4) 5 Hurriedly train in heats (2,5) 6 Many implore hero to develop former superstate (4,5,6) 7 Special stroke in pool that’s hard to interpret (6) 8 Strange tale about new king’s ornamental chain (6) 16 Lots of wild animals
here, that’s plain (9) 18 Sibling brings in sheep for exercises (3-3) 19 I had put up with second month’s shocks (7) 21 Stan abandons Asian country and its cash (7) 23 Good escort’s well (6) 25 Cyril rebuilt theatre
in Hammersmith (5)
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