CLASSIC CROSSWORD
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)