The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
1 Roundabout way he dismantles
safety switch (7-7)
9 Depend on internal pressure
for the answer (5)
10 Not protected from setting sun,
ruined (9)
11 Time and motive for crime (7)
12 Lace, it’s become stretchy (7)
13 God seen in waterway flowing
backwards (4)
14 Runs in fete, find outcome
contrary (9)
18 Weapons for dodgy cult
with idiots (9)
20 Mooched round darts line (4)
22 Deal with formal speech (7)
25 Frozen little rabbit gets
a sweet treat (4,3)
26 Mexican dish left in tumbledown
hacienda (9)
27 Modify some educational
terminology (5)
28 Rebuilt Bard’s theatre,
do act (5,3,6)
DOWN
1 A treatment initially brought in to
heal clergyman (6)
2 Symbolise about now (9)
3 President Grant seen during
July’s session (7)
4 Outside ring, cook roundest
piece of beef (9)
5 Lift beams soundly (5)
6 Relieve pain of donkey
with terrible ague (7)
7 Bird, say, regarding nest finally (5) 8 Notes old coin accepted
by tutor (7)
15 Wriggling as cat in iron grip
to beguile (9)
16 With their box I fixed shower (9) 17 Very English Tosca performance
with sets of eight notes (7)
19 Morning Heather! Where’s
Virginia? (7)
20 Love orange squash with
seasoning (7)
21 Is torn about programmes’
musical starts (6)
23 Embellishment in suede,
corduroy (5)
24 Beam of light down the minepassage (5)
ACROSS
8 Official escorting people
to seats (5)
9 Loosen (a lid) (7)
10 Put in code (7)
11 Wastrel (5)
12 TV, press etc (4,5)
14 Fish eggs (3)
15 Drill attachment (3)
16 Receptive (2,3,4)
19 Item of furniture (5)
21 Citizen army (7)
23 Lowest rank of
soldier (7)
24 Unoriginal (5)
DOWN
1 Building housing
historic objects (6)
2 Sturdy, stocky (8)
3 Donkey’s loud cry (4)
4 Completely exhausted
or devastated (6)
5 Approximate judgement
of number (8)
6 Spoken, not written (4)
7 Change direction abruptly (6)
13 High street (4,4)
14 Congregating (in the hen-house) (8) 15 Upper arm muscle (6)
17 Wood for processing (6)
18 Fatal (6)
20 Zealous (4)
22 Fleshy part of the ear (4)