CLASSIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
9 A girl more affected by such a performance (9)
10 Join the French to
confuse (5)
11 We, with the remainder left
inside, struggle (7)
12 Sells bicycle parts, by the
sound of it (7)
13 Little letters let down legal
argument (5,4)
16 Actors join English class (5) 17 Putin returned shattered, without having a break (13) 20 Not this parent losing her head (5)
21 Signs a tribute to Eddie's cat, strangely (9)
24 The heartless nation has a will (7)
25 Usual method is popular in a way (7)
27 Large number with angling equipment and lobster pot (5)
28 Farms torn apart to make a new shape (9)
DOWN
1 Gardening tool made from model, spiked wheel (6) 2 Lasciviously look round extraordinary leg (4)
3 Order to hold up the stocking? (6)
4 Solitary advance, we hear (4)
5 Fruit harvested outside was seen
again (10)
6 Give one hat to disadvantage (8) 7 A social security payment's money for youngster (10)
8 More confused when series broadcast after first of May (7) 14 City's victory over another (10) 15 Madmen sent round to make corrections (10)
18 In general, no marines are with partner (8)
19 Useful person not in favour of diplomacy (7)
22 Ring in to damn the training (6) 23 Cooked meats and yogurt i nitially, producing lots of vapour (6)
25 Study concerning commercial (4)
26 Heavy metal press (4)
ACROSS
3 Gun (3)
7 Private in the Royal Engineers (6)
8 Revoke (a law) (6)
9 Saucy demeanour (8) 10 Brand-name plastic bricks (4)
11 Laura ___, clothes and home-furnishings chain (6) 12 Pursued a seaside sport (6) 15 Rubber (6)
18 City and lake of
Switzerland (6)
20 Orchestral instrument which plays the tuning-up note (4) 22 Humorous five-line poem (8) 23 Being (6)
24 International chocolate company (6)
25 Piste runner (3)
DOWN
1 Refuges (6)
2 Flattened cooking blades (8) 3 Avaricious (6)
4 Has faith in (6)
5 Milky or bluish precious
stone (4) 6 Dame ___ Smith, English actress (6) 11 Forester's tool (3)
13 Expose yourself to peril (3,1,4) 14 Constituent of genetic material (inits) (3) 16 Red-breasted birds (6)
17 Shifts (6)
18 Zodiac sign of the Twins (6)
19 Singing parts (6)
21 Fiendish (4)