The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
8 Trial, or agreement (6)
9 Primate eats domestic animal,
it exhibiting hunger (8)
10 Insect found in bog,
naturally (4)
11 A lifesaver in the main (10)
12 Fear pieces falling apart in
route from blaze (4,6)
14 Look at promenade feature,
reportedly (4)
15 Cowardly bird? (7)
17 To talk with difficulty is the
way to talk (7)
20 Black marketeer sending
bigwigs back (4)
22 Measurer of angles in favour
of farm vehicle (10)
24 Shy person making
bloomer (10)
26 Vegetable has to lose water,
it’s said (4)
27 Film-maker sees girl with
clergyman (8)
28 Artist’s surreal Sea Channel (6)
DOWN
1 Wield plate of cereal? (8)
2 One insect or another let
off (6)
3 Bleating family’s
disgrace? (5,5)
4 2 down gone to seed (7)
5 Hot and cold brought up
argument (4)
6 Small instrument making
tart (8)
7 Go without vaster
distribution (6)
13 Go in with force, showing
business skill (10)
16 Supporter of Charles I is
offhand (8)
18 Coteries ridiculously difficult
to understand (8)
19 Positive direction for
patients (7)
21 Calm, though cold, in Scottish
garb (6)
23 Shout about some elephant
given salad sticks (6)
25 Instrument topping
another (4)
ACROSS
1 Candle thread (4)
3 Small rocky body orbiting the Sun (8)
9 Itinerant (7)
10 Exhaust (3,2)
11 Natural aptitude (5)
12 Reasonably OK (3,3)
14 Abreast of (6)
15 Resistant
(to disease) (6)
18 Chips vegetable (6)
20 Swellings, lumps (5)
22 Argot (5)
23 Decorative flower (7)
25 Lays claim (to) (8)
26 Eating occasion (4)
DOWN
1 Triumphed (3)
2 Readily showing
sympathy (13)
4 Sixtieth part of a
minute (6)
5 Explode, like a volcano (5)
6 Excess (4-9)
7 Victim of deception (4)
8 Much-loved (6)
11 Watch chains (4)
13 Carefully checks (4)
16 Cope (6)
17 Thronged (6)
19 Geometrical measurement (5) 21 Without delay (inits) (4)
24 Each one (3)