CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Mac group meet in different places to play this? (8,4) 8 Bucking bronco fed cold ear of maize (7) 9 Shrewd Harry, fine player at Murrayfield (3,4) 11 Rebellion in Sweden given priority (10) 12 Time to control universal form of malaria (4) 14 Furnace could make Mike ill and nauseous at first (8) 16 Inferior bunch of
skiers at Zermatt (6) 17 Odd occurrences of
racial trouble (3) 19 When lambs appear
to jump (6) 21 International cult engaged in plot split in half (8) 24 Take home each
group of sailors (4) 25 Study of figures in morgue only after treatment (10) 27 It’s caught in one pot and cooked in another (7) 28 Former president is crazy about housing (7) 29 Magnetic ore transformed variable source of power (6,6)
DOWN
1 Child is in Rome briefly, being baptised in this? (7) 2 Scandalous job for hack or stable worker? (10) 3 Short burly male arranged cover in shower (8) 4 Cause of English fellows etc getting injured (6) 5 Spanish artist unknown in former Portuguese colony (4) 6 I’m surprised seaweed suppresses current pain (7) 7 He and I work with Chelsea to hide trainees’ weak point (8,4) 10 After cold snap, aching to retain right preservation method (6-6) 13 Property owner
disguised here in file (10) 15 Writer’s tip: take note
touring island (3) 18 Game official who’s
often up the pole? (8) 20 Snack? Hard to find it
around Britain (7) 22 Communist runs
key marginals? (7) 23 Massage costly unfinished set of rules (6) 26 Staunch supporter
of plant (4)