CLASSIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

9 Parking by pub, needing

colour as personal ID (3,6)

10 Cleanse where sterile round

top of gauze (5)

11 Only dug out of evil (7)

12 Comedian seizing

headgear – the so-and-so (7) 13 Zealot is cross, surrounded by

swarming termites (9)

16 Recognises facial feature, we

hear (5)

17 Travellers who run the

world? (13)

20 Make changes re tax and get

more (5)

21 Has a guess that friend is

entering derelict sites (9)

24 Missile to drop perhaps

around end of June (7)

25 Badly beaten round back of

school, though defensible (7) 27 Material used in dramatic

repertoire (5)

28 Lovers’ getaway, from work in

part (9)

DOWN

1 Trim a fir (6)

2 Point to inferior horse – that’s

the obstacle! (4)

3 Small cake led somehow to a

loose parcel (6)

4 Order youth leader to do as

he’s told (4)

5 Bronzed tutor cooking

fish (5,5)

6 Buoyant demand for goods – high-end

(products) (8)

7 A tractor is ordered for

nobleman (10)

8 It’s most orderly to dine in the

home (7)

14 Speak plainly if you lecture

country (4,6)

15 Enemy hit on different way to

get rich (2,3,5)

18 Couple allowed to make

jewellery (8)

19 Partly Joe cut telegram up for

money (7)

22 Tip in sea when repaired (6) 23 Seat is prepared for nap (6) 25 Peep is palindromic (4)

26 Meat or grouse? (4)

ACROSS

3 Come to a close (3)

7 Name of Iran until

1935 (6)

8 Connected to the

internet (6)

9 Pasta tubes (8)

10 ___ Mcilroy, golfer (4) 11 Lessee (6)

12 Holds (6)

15 Building material (6)

18 Public disorder (6)

20 Put away (4)

22 Traffic at a standstill (8) 23 Tax refund (6)

24 Actress Ms Kidman (6) 25 ___ res, attractive

home (3)

DOWN 1

Conduct oneself properly (6)

2 Bit of a lark (8)

3 Go to a restaurant (3,3) 4 Lightly sleeping (6)

5 Aspersion (4)

6 Lure into danger,

snare (6) 11 Brand of snack crackers (3) 13 Synthetic paints (8)

14 Found a chair (3)

16 Reverence, admiration (6) 17 Labelled (6)

18 Coalitions (6)

19 Etna’s island (6)

21 Sunderland’s river (4)