WIN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD £500
No 17,115
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ACROSS
1 Opinion from Petty Officer now fit after treatment to embrace struggle (5,2,4)
9 Tuneful rock band with
Diana admitted by host (7) 10 One averse to new
technology diluted liquid (7) 11 Resolve to forget week
under the weather? (3)
12 Councillor misplaced quote
for lawn-based game (7)
13 Separate Croatian city
on the rise (5,2)
14 Notice place to swim
by the sound of it (3)
15 Temperature approximately
in trunk of the body (5)
17 Mournful work, say, stocked by English library on vacation (5)
18 Private investigator occupying backless chair in reddish-brown hue (5)
20 Mark piece of material
used for mending (5)
22 Whiskery male restricted
heavy book (3)
24 Admit misguided pun too
about women (3,2,2)
25 Pitched in field around lake,
getting made immobile? (7) 26 Unpleasant smell linked
to a decorative scarf (3)
27 Tragic figure with hope shattered before trouble returns (7)
28 Destructive Republican for
all to see in old UK ally (7)
29 German rose nervously around Conservative, one spreading alarm (11)
DOWN
1 Nuns help couples in trouble making one restrain one’s criticisms (4,4,7)
2 Criminal bound to interrupt appeal?
It’s open to question (2,5) 3 One cutting diplomat’s
quality, it’s implied (5)
4 Fail to meet standard following everyone being snappish (4,5)
5 Give way to northern director enthralled by guile somehow (7)
6 Break two top rules with this rapid visit (7-4,4)
7 Son derides protective
garments (6)
8 Woman getting to work
in an intense way (6)
16 Unprincipled type concerning right to a person’s assets? (9)
18 No leading soprano on reflection? Exactly right! (4-2)
19 A scholar gets to draw
inside Roman flask (7)
21 Faculty trial (7)
23 Humble way followed
by revered figure (6)
25 Hundred put on famous
ship as load at sea (5)