The Herald crosswords
By Puzzler Media
ACROSS
Ten operas translated into artificial language (9)
10 Runs amok with English
hospital worker (5)
11 Cuts a hundred pages in
book (7)
12 Adored little rodent back
in garden plot (7)
13 Section on long narrow
hill reveals bird (9)
16 Lowest point of cracked
drain (5)
17 Grasping the meaning of
lower position (13)
20 Send clocklike device
back (5)
21 Rebel gets run in,
strangely (9)
24 Establish in stable (7)
25 Accumlated wealth for London, perhaps (7)
Vote in some of the Cambridge lecturers (5) Recent fortress in Tyneside city (9) 9 27 28
Friday, 16th April, 2021
No. 15,526 by Puzzler Media
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Carped about military police officer (6)
Peas scattered round part of church (4)
Club for the golfing motorist? (6) Responsibility you and I have? (4) Large drink taken with fish and something plucked (6,4)
Tending to wince endlessly, showing wrinkles (8)
Foresight offered by Ed back in territory (10)
Offers for railway wagons? (7) Call expert, one in charge of a circus (10)
Follower embraces fashionable method of controlling behaviour (10)
Passages from former pamphlets (8)
Film advert for caravan (7)
Cancel second chime (6)
Cashier is one who gives an account (6)
Monk's hood left under animal (4) A little portrait at eminent gallery (4)
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In difficulties (4-7) Settle your differences (4,3,4,2) Constant, enduring (8) Asterisk (4)
'Laughing' carnivore (5) Defendant's whereabouts claim (5) A really long time (4) Piquancy (8)
Scottish dance (8,5) Narrator (11)
DOWN
Grey long-eared animal of the horse family (3) Speaking in a slow manner (8)
Mouse or rat, eg (6) Concrete chunk (4) Quite likely to be voted in (9)
Cranium (5)
Flash of light (5) Category below feather and bantam in professional boxing (9) 13 16 17 18 21 23
Lazy, idle (8)
Arithmetic etc (5) Is unqualified to (6) Customary practice (5) Image not in focus (4) Fury, wrath (3)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS