The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
9 Inelegant straggling bush (9) 10 Three flying around upper air (5)
11 Only one sort of square vest (7)
12 Father right to cut root vegetable (7)
13 Engineer left on board with time for journalistic writing (9) 16 Puzzling question for
model (5)
17 Payment in coins rationed
unexpectedly (13)
20 Heart-broken world (5)
21 Stops concealing fury and puts in peril (9)
24 Little Victor, given debts, becomes cruel and violent (7) 25 Lassie, perhaps, Orion's companion? (3,4)
27 Showed preference for cold pipe (5)
28 Dark horse has horrible experience (9)
DOWN
1 Crone's wrong person to use blue pencil (6)
2 Tribe is able to capture novice (4) 3 Bend on the river for fisherman (6) 4 Herb a money-maker? (4)
5 Came into view again to harvest fruit with editor (10)
6 CID Peter disbanded, being old and worn out (8)
7 Imitation diamond taken from rock at bottom of German river (10)
8 Get ready to cut off agent that's captured (7)
14 Measurer of angles supporting f arm equipment (10)
15 Giving attention to commercial on salad sauce (10)
18 Large glass sailing ship (8) 19 Religious ceremony seen on the tennis court? (7)
22 Deny Tyneside access to garden (6) 23 Second statement of beliefs is long piece of writing (6)
25 Accommodation at archaeological sites? (4)
26 Upmarket public vehicle (4)
ACROSS
1 Walkway along the side of a canal (7)
5 Double (5)
8 First-class mark (5)
9 Person named as a potential award winner (7) 10 Scent (7)
11 Epsom's most famous race (5) 12 Had fun (6)
14 Drink that washes down another (6)
18 Joint on which a door turns (5) 20 Grates, grazes (7)
22 Knotted threadwork (7)
23 James Joyce's nationality (5)
24___ Prizes, awards for chemistry, peace, literature etc (5)
25 Non-portable (computer) (7)
DOWN
1 Person who snares
animals for their fur (7) 2 Windscreen cleaner (5) 3 Under normal
circumstances (2,1,4)
4 ___ after, yearn for (6)
5 Scheduled (5)
6 Neglects (7)
7 Without exception (5)
13 Hire car ordered in advance (7)
15 Recluses (7)
16 Wild fruit that is very high in vitamin C (7) 17 Climb, move upwards (6)
18 Of our species (5)
19 Communicate over the net (5)
21 Direct, aim (5)