The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
6 Hug yours truly all over and
hold tight! (7)
7 Adrift in the deep
blue? (2,3)
9 Good-looking blonde (4)
10 Where one might find hot
goods is uncertain (2,3,5) 11 Do enamel wrong, having
this! (8)
13 Don't start roast? Blooming
go to a restaurant! (3,3)
15 Food store I managed to
turn around (4)
17 A French town near raspberry-coloured houses (5)
18 Damn rodents! (4)
19 Head over with soprano for wild revels (6)
20 I did rant after smashing up island (8)
23 Armaments I exploded in
the middle of the road (10) 26 American jerk! (4)
27 Most note Georgia is a
kingdom in the Pacific! (5) 28 Popular nurse with small
plans (7)
DOWN
1 Scottish city dweller and a bore in
Barking (10)
2 Father welcoming a deity in a
temple (6)
3 Pure smack brought over, then cut
with ecstasy (4)
4 How to have less kids without
friends? (8)
5 Muck, possibly, one's left on
bottom of shoe (4)
6 Raise spirits of dead following
third of spells (5)
8 Broadcast a noble Italian story (7) 12 Winger feels bad about avoiding
the wings (5)
14 Trying to play around with fire is
frightfully appalling (10)
16 Stylish posh girl about to be
hugged by English six-footer (7)
17 One likely to bark order at a
snail! (8)
21 Prisoner within China (6)
22 Gold books given to son and
family members (5)
24 Two articles written about old
relative (4)
25 Leader of European
spacestation (4)
ACROSS
7 Adore (7)
9 Transgressed (5)
10 Cleopatra's fateful
serpent (3)
11 Criminal trial
venue (9)
12 Whorls (5)
14 Choux pastry cream
cakes (7)
16 Difficult choice (7)
18 Dabbled (with) (5)
19 Dark-plumed garden
visitor (9)
20 And so forth
(abbrev)(3)
21 Walk (on) (5)
22 More zany (7)
DOWN
1 Backed with money (8) 2 Ring (4)
3 Grinds (6)
4 Green, yellow or red
pulse (6)
5 Preferential
treatment (8) 6 First man in Genesis (4)
8 Process of itemising (11)
13 Doomed, unlucky (3-5)
15 Womanisers (8)
17 Manage with what you have (4,2) 18 As of now (2,4)
19 Fragments (4)
20 Wicked, sinful (4)