CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1

React badly and nearly turns pale getting freedom (5,7)

9/7 A little cop lie class (9,5)

10 Prepared in Barra, Italian yoghurt dish (5)

11 Folk tales about a hotel in Pakistan (6)

12 Rudeness upset customers (3,5)

13 Squalid government raking up bribes, being yesterday’s leaders (6)

14 Competitor loses heart following fogginess, leading to defective hearing (8)

17 Deciding upon choosing to oust leader (8)

19 Muck from tip of shoe found in lounge by Boris, finally (6)

21 Bribed by frightful bounders (8)

23 See 4 Down

25 Complaint about source of income by Campbell, for instance (5)

26 Can be left out when mobilises constituents (9)

27 Like decimal or binary, more senseless and extremely scary to stop (6,6)

I organised for the ruling

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across: 4 Half-numb, 9/5 Call to arms, 10 Immunity, 13 Akashi, 15/12 Alan Longmuir, 16 Bye Bye Baby, 19 Shang-a-Lang, 20/30 Four tenths, 23 Atwain, 25 Go to hell, 27 Roof over, 28 Cohere, 29 Paybacks

DOWN 2

Starts to act up, should arrange last chance in village south of East Kilbride (9)

3 Molar filling comes out - reaction of brain starts to pound (2,5)

4/23 Financier accepting employee bribe (4,6)

5 Can’t tail suspect from Scotland to US (8)

6 Crooked firm run by Murdoch wanting heartless employer (7)

7 See 9 Across

8 Thanks crooked parties, taking in left even, close to collapse in state of chaos (12)

9 PM accepting unlimited venality? Good thinking, but not on bribery (4,8)

15 A Dublin novel that is bordering being impossible to transcribe (9)

16 See 22

18 Essentially defamatory, is minister providing right thinking? (7)

20 Makes connections in Silesia resort (7)

22/16 Dodgy money case unfortunately below proven, even being inside (5,8)

24 Loiters now and then and tells stories (4)

Down: 1 Cochlea, 2 Oblongata, 3/22 No time to lose, 6 Faulkner, 7 Units, 8/21 Bay City Rollers, 11 Bicycle, 14 Abandon, 17 Atonement, 18 Agricola, 19 Sea trip, 24 Woody,

26/1A Meek clowns