The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
1 Humanity expert placing tag
on polo shirt (14)
9 Put on alcove section with a
key (5)
10 Supporting flying canary with
bad innards (9)
11 Problem about bird's bone (7) 12 Narrow poster left inside (7) 13 Isle mix-up results in
untruths (4)
14 Leave fruit and lose it (2,7)
18 One raising a lid gets a
surprise (3-6)
20 Warmth of duvet on a Roman
garment (4)
22 Knight goes west with
monarch, gambling (7)
25 Biblical letter – sleep with it,
perhaps (7)
26 Not a strong requirement, we hear, for those with little determination (4-5)
27 Keep pound concealed for
ointment (5)
28 Where monks meet to
celebrate forty again (9,5)
DOWN
1 Painter displaying unusual
traits (6)
2 Exotic Argentine fruit (9)
3 Backs down about loaned
shilling (7)
4 Grouse about giant pram (9)
5 Goes without – that's
negligent, we hear (5)
6 Amount of water surrounding
European ship (7)
7 Good person gets help to
stay sober (5)
8 Talk about island tree (7)
15 Exclude bid from local
worker (9)
16 Establishment where you might find a weapon after dark? (9)
17 Brought back new prison officer to be sketched again (7)
19 Thorn put right in the relish (7) 20 Lookalike arranged matching
clothes (7)
21 Calm, dry points (6)
23 Some of his talent is no longer
fresh (5)
24 Some agree to say hello (5)
ACROSS
1 Clump (of fur) (4)
3 Detergent (8)
9 Women's religious
home (7)
10 Of the countryside (5) 11 School subject (5)
12 Not talked about (6)
14 Merseyside accent and
dialect (6)
15 Shaving foam (6)
18 High-pitched (6)
20 Ransack (5)
22 Alto fiddle (5)
23 Dental mixture (7)
25 Peer, aristocrat (8)
26 Ladder rung (4)
DOWN
1 Paint pot (3)
2 Search with a ___, check very thoroughly (4-5,4)
4 Page design (6)
5 Land measurements (5) 6 Contest between just
two opponents (8,5)
7 Infuriate (4)
8 Tally of citizens (6) 11 Strong-smelling perfume
ingredient (4)
13 Costing nothing (4)
16 In another country (6)
17 Llama-like animal (6)
19 Mental picture (5)
21 Baking chamber (4)
24 Floor-cleaning implement (3)
ACROSS
1 Glass instrument needs drink
first (9,5)
9 A boxing match in the vicinity (5)
10 I later turned, scoffed and hit back (9)
11 Concerning interior swimming
pools and intakes of air (7)
12 Painters in dire straits (7)
13 Rope-maker to park on
border (4)
14 Old boy's term for compulsive
preoccupation (9)
18 During another Sabbath he
embraced biblical woman (9) 20 Hit garment (4)
22 I learnt about trusting (7)
25 Backing some questionable
visa very shifty! (7)
26 Black Beauty, perhaps, one
with hidden talents (4,5)
27 Proper person's first to dress
fussily (5)
28 Something to chew
on? (4,3,7)
DOWN
1 Irascible, like a crustacean (6) 2 Novel reparation (9)
3 Break for refreshment at
mine's entrance (3,4)
4 Copy ogre's design for
spinning wheel (9)
5 More than an actor (5)
6 Signs of a beginner
demolishing pallets (1-6)
7 Rips rates apart (5)
8 Adds salt to springs? (7)
15 Declaration in
law – testament, possibly (9) 16 Tending towards not being
upright (9)
17 Stick out if badly troubled
with large omission (7)
19 Almost stop building being
hidden away (7)
20 Meat inside short cutlery
item, or bathroom item (7)
21 Order posted for a tyrant (6) 23 Goal difficult if containing
runs scored slowly (5)
24 Trunk is part of elephant or
something (5)
ACROSS
1 Small picturesque
cave (6)
4 Loose Japanese-style
robe (6)
9 Reach (a target or
goal) (7)
10 Order issued by a
king (5)
11 Vaccine (5)
12 Miscreant (7)
13 Microscopic shrimp-like
sea creatures (5)
15 Of law cases,
non-criminal (5)
20 Eternally (7)
22 Stingy person (5)
24 Cuttlefish (5)
25 Caring for sick people (7) 26 Vibration, quake (6)
27 Render hard-of
hearing (6)
DOWN
1 Blank, vacant (stare) (6) 2 Alternative (5)
3 Warm air current (7)
5 Absolutely perfect (5)
6 Japanese art of
paper-folding (7) 7 Belgian ferry port (6)
8 Courage, coolness (5)
14 Change direction (7)
16 Dunk (7)
17 Compensate for (6)
18 Allow (as a privilege) (5)
19 Root, derivation (6)
21 Old TV recording device (5)
23 Short inhalation through the nose (5)