The Herald

CLASSIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Hypocritic­al rule coupled with

ensign (6,8)

9 Unhappy I'm returning to king (5) 10 Snowdrop seen in the fall? (9)

11 Wandering man accepted

deserter (7)

12 Rep more unlikely to be ruler (7) 13 Brave bloke captured by another

one (4)

14 Incur PAYE adjustment,

concerning money (9)

18 Hundred Russians around wild

flower (9)

20 Show cleaning product (4)

22 Strangely silent about son who

joins the forces (7)

25 Eve rang round for righter of

wrongs (7)

26 Rip up root to make fragrant

petals (3-6)

27 Ski slope where pet is

scrambling (5)

28 A re-entry plan, it fails between

Earth and Mars, perhaps (14)

DOWN

1 Block enclosure to make

moist (6)

2 A new, ruder variety of

clothing (9)

3 Just look at those shuffling inside

small kingdom (7)

4 The main pictures? (9)

5 A puzzle to astonish (5)

6 Notice dad in study,

poker-faced (7)

7 Come back about mongrel (5)

8 Bert, say, unfortunat­ely breaks

faith (7)

15 Acting partner in charge of a

Central American country (5,4)

16 A leg Asian twisted, but with

absence of pain (9)

17 Dishevelle­d punk met crook (7) 19 Coastal batting support (7)

20 Expensive, the French spire (7)

21 Look up in outskirts of city

that's eerie (6)

23 Student at university not heading

north to Bedfordshi­re town (5)

24 Drink interrupte­d by year of

mawkishnes­s (5)

ACROSS

1 Begin again after a

break (6)

4 Prattle (on) (6)

9 Joke (3)

10 Speaking softly (9)

11 Synthetic fibre (5)

12 Nursemaids (7)

14 Going around (with) (11) 17 Something, the name of

which escapes you (7) 18 Cow's milk bag (5)

20 ___ home, grand family

house (9)

22 ‘Romeo ___ Juliet’,

Shakespear­e play (3)

23 Unsavoury (6)

24 Wild animals with a

strange laughing call (6)

DOWN

1 Ginger ___, Fred Astaire's

dancing partner (6)

2 Saturated (5)

3 Critical, crucial (9)

5 Memorandum of debt

(inits) (3)

6 Teaching, instructio­n (7) 7 Wild outbursts of anger (5)

8 Small portable radios (11)

13 Innocent (3,6)

15 More rare (7)

16 Newly married women (6)

17 Covers (a present) in fancy paper (5) 19 Pulled together (curtains) (5)

21 Undertake a winter sport (3)

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No. 15,309 by Puzzler Media Friday, 11th September, 2020
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