CLASSIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Pause for nightcap, a beer's poured out (9,5)
9 Page found in the correct
order (5)
10 Can batsman find kitchen
utensil? (3-6)
11 Thrill for back numbers'
title (7)
12 Wait up with the French items of food (7)
13 Sailor taken in by tiny
child (4)
14 Backing up motorway
diagram Ted put in (9)
18 Dwelling on a role planned
on the radio (9)
20 Bit of a curl in office
flooring (4)
22 Copper gets a vehicle to
reverse over liqueur (7)
25 Do away with old bishop not
starting to fly (7)
26 Robin near to transfer of
mindless task (2-7)
27 Complains bitterly about
train tracks (5)
28 Girl's date is a let-down (14)
DOWN
1 Lacking cap with fine lining (6) 2 Dish left in ramshackle hacienda (9)
3 Famous Russian without a job in city (7)
4 Exhaustive event is in disarray (9) 5 Information concerning artistic style (5)
6 Dad and I entering park abroad for a red pepper (7)
7 Passing into Pacific, an altogether different waterway! (5) 8 Party leader has to stay and officiate (7)
15 Medley to flow in or tip out (3-6) 16 Experimental camping shelter took in about four (9)
17 Clear another New York theft (7) 19 Musical piece two cats composed about duck (7)
20 Young animal always allowed outside (7)
21 In France I backed examination of frequent flyers (3,3)
23 Religious leader docking tail from burrowing animal (5)
24 King George leaves adult to confess (3,2)
ACROSS
1 Dull, bland (7)
5 Holiday accommodation (5) 8 Upper House of the
British Parliament (5)
9 ___ arts, kung fu and karate etc (7)
10 Programme for the promotion of health (7) 11 Melodic or harmonic sound (5)
12 Separate from the sediment (6)
14 ‘The Adventures of Tom’ ___, novel by Mark Twain (6) 18 Slightly wet or damp (5) 20 Sediment, substance (7) 22 Final course (7)
23 In existence (5)
24 Stripy (5)
25 Beef or lamb, eg (3,4)
DOWN
1 Poorly brought up (3-4) 2 Cropped cardigan (5)
3 Letter and parcel
deliverer (7)
4 Evil beings (6)
5 Group of wives (5)
6 Wanting a drink (7)
7 Light purple (5)
13 Reddish colour (7)
15 Clap hands in approval (7)
16 Turn tail (7)
17 Newspaper manager (6)
18 Catwalk worker (5)
19 River on the English-scottish border (5) 21 Long-billed wading bird (5)