The Herald crosswords
ACROSS 9 And moulding gold layer to a
ridiculous degree (2,7)
10 To rub out is simplicity holding
end of rubber (5)
11 Support line from your
peg (3,4)
12 Comments about the
stains (7)
13 Deliberately wrecks French
clog a long time afterwards (9) 16 Flyer with the foreign name (5) 17 Keep odd pens there,
temporarily (3,3,7)
20 More peculiar food derived
inside (5)
21 A period to encounter
U-turn (5-4)
24 Disease spoiling her cola (7) 25 Silly as one number (7)
27 Even nuisances hide
boredom (5)
28 Get soup at Robin’s home,
perhaps (5,4)
DOWN
1 Rudely pushes canal
vessels (6)
2 Resentment seen in diplomat
dropping round (4)
3 Upset at being made
homeless (3,3)
4 Back in the street, effectively a
garden party (4)
5 Opera director should get
praise, or I’m off! (10)
6 Expression, it points to
insects (8)
7 Country with obsession about
university girl (10)
8 Yours truly has a less
distressing disease (7)
14 Dracula? (5,5)
15 Legendary star disguised in
Bogart gear (5,5)
18 Spice in trice with rum,
ruined (8)
19 Ticket used to attest
hesitantly (7)
22 Desire new T-shirt (6)
23 Occasions for Eastern air
ducts (6)
25 Jaunty song with happy
ending (4)
26 Stored by android, each
thought (4)
ACROSS
3 Distant (3)
7 Boy from The Jungle Book(6)
8 Lucky charm or token (6)
9 So to speak (2,2,4)
10 Remove the skin from (4) 11 Tangled (6)
12 Upholstered (6)
15 Matt ___, A Question of
Sport team captain (6)
18 At the bottom level (6)
20 Monk’s hood (4)
22 Abhorred (8)
23 Seduces, entices (6)
24 Aerosol outlet (6)
25 Annual car check (inits) (3)
DOWN
1 Make less tight (6)
2 Perturbs (8)
3 Delicately (6)
4 Wild shindig (4-2)
5 Short burst of breath (4)
6 Cheapen (6)
11 Soft leather (3) 13 Reduce in number (8)
14 Shorter Morse code element (3) 16 Asserted (6)
17 Practice of baring all (6)
18 Dormant, quiescent (6)
19 Respectable (6)
21 Edges of the mouth (4)