CLASSIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Soft coat for sportsman (6)

9 Pity raid going wrong, given

speed (8)

10 Grave when head beadle

follows cat (4)

11 Reminder: we must go round

lake (10)

12 Produce songs, then leave! (4,6) 14 Require nothing less than one

journalist (4)

15 Choice meat for the champion

team? (7)

17 New singlet may gleam (7)

20 Among Vikings, a gallant

old story (4)

22 I mean to sit out on

judgement (10)

24 Monk put US spies in tank (10) 26 Egotistical dedication for

a book (4)

27 Lack of other gas, exploding (8) 28 Say, nothing is male, but

self-centredness! (6)

DOWN

1 Maybe adore old land (2,6)

2 Possibly extras for so long (3-3)

3 Feature of castle to tie game (10)

4 River seen beside Tobermory (7)

5 Weapon concealed by the peers (4)

6 Peculiar chaps by back street causing scraps (8)

7 Look to swallow first of vitamins, but waste away (6)

13 Alan dreams about amphibian (10)

16 People looking hard round back of restaurant for appetisers (8)

18 Sweet arrangement of semitones with one missing (4,4)

19 Unending distress about trousers (7)

21 Land on fire (6)

23 Evening display is rubbish as well (6)

25 Wander round capital,

reportedly (4)

ACROSS

1 Undressed (4)

3 Unknown person (8)

9 Badly behaved (7)

10 Composure (5)

11 Orange-yellow pigment (5)

12 Elevate (6)

14 Items of business (6)

15 Whisky, perhaps (6)

18 Spanish holiday (6)

20 In debt (5)

22 ___ dots, spotty

pattern (5)

23 Spotted by the sun (7)

25 Person just married (5-3) 26 Ceases (4)

DOWN

1 Convent member (3)

2 Your child’s wife (8-2-3)

4 Preliminary test (3-3)

5 Horrify, dismay (5)

6 Beset with woe (5-8)

7 Aquatic grass (4)

8 Cotton filament (6) 11 Milky precious gem (4)

13 Hoodlum (4)

16 Finished (6)

17 Crisp batter cake (6)

19 Resembling a legless reptile (5)

21 Turn round fast (4)

24 Affirmative word (3)