The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
8 Hard struggle, or trade (6)
9 I yell out loud for cold dessert (3,5)
10 See location (4)
11 Meat and potato dish – a piece got cooked around start of tea (7,3)
12 Irish emblem with fake diamond? (8)
13 Prize artist's returned (6)
15 Law taking time in work of sculptor (7)
16 Graduates anon getting instrument (7)
20 Declare at cricket match (6) 23 Indeed, so awfully biased (3-5) 24 Choose a flower, we hear, for spicy sauce (10)
26 Good for gibbon to yawn (4)
27 Tory with stupid contract (8)
28 A lecturer is a handsome
man (6)
DOWN
1 Do sport badly, maintaining hard tennis stroke (4,4)
2 Less than an inch makes me reticent (10)
3 Shortage during period brings power cut (8)
4 I'm up on bet? That's wrong (7)
5 Mend about two (6)
6 Cheese short, shortly (4) 7 Sword hit? That is right (6) 14 US city cleaning a lot (10) 17 US in camera, suspicious (8) 18 Provide a contortionist, given too much money (8)
19 Rock sounding more courageous (7)
21 Rialto's eccentric cloth worker (6)
22 Gift gaining thanks fast (6) 25 Yield grain, we hear (4)
ACROSS
1 Casseroling (7) 5 Country that split in 1991 (inits) (4) 9 Enjoying a winning streak (2,1,4) 10 Woodworker's smoothing tool (5)
11 Colloquialism (5)
12 Exotic flower (6)
14 Parish minister (6)
16 Paltry (6)
18 Walk quietly (6)
19 Skewered dish (5)
22 Subsided (5)
23 Winds like a
screw-thread (7)
24 Brick-carriers (4)
25 Outlay, cost (7)
DOWN
2 Small crown (5)
3 Disconcerted by a deceptive move (5-6) 4 ___ Mandela, iconic South African president (6) 6 Screening (from the sun) (7)
7 Coral shipping hazard (4)
8 Spouse of a reigning monarch (7) 10 Portable blade (6,5)
13 Food fish (3,4)
15 Ascended, went up (7)
17 Mercia's rival in Anglo-saxon times (6)
20 Puts up with (5)
21 Be co-ordinated, harmonise (4)