CLASSIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Timid creature swallowing seconds for dessert (6) 9 One caught in the country showing idleness (8) 10 Problem for a spectator during breakfast yesterday (4) 11 English funny about word of dissent, being thrifty (10) 12 Unsettling when on holiday playing golf (3-7) 14 It’s not odd, though (4) 15 Cry when fat (7) 17 Competition where a hundred on trial (7) 20 Pudding which is sour (4) 22 Oil up internet breaking down (10) 24 Generous cleaning lady, one before the board (10) 26 Dance on bit of film (4) 27 Quiet national from former German kingdom (8) 28 Cut snooker ball with bent cue (6)

DOWN

1 Some food? It’s hard to say! (8) 2 Snake gobbling fish up becomes unconscious (6) 3 Bitterness regarding emotion when one leaves (10) 4 Is a coin spinning in this island capital? (7) 5 Drop round the pudding (4) 6 Point on spear, grating (8) 7 No London gallery to write music (6) 13 Unwanted individual fruit (10) 16 But hair – might it be flying? (8) 18 Words given with conviction? (8) 19 Part of a church, ie burnt out (7) 21 Stick commercial in cryptic puzzle? (6) 23 Outburst, as one stuck in traffic (6) 25 Fall for excursion (4)

ACROSS

1 Six-legged invertebrate (6) 4 Calm, unruffled (6) 9 Escape of gas or liquid (7) 10 Copy, imitate (5) 11 Quarter pint (4) 12 Study of animals (7) 14 Bureau (6) 16 Deep blue colour (6) 19 Christmas ‘banger’ (7) 21 Twelve o’clock (4) 23 Trainee sailor (5) 24 Unco-operative (7) 25 Dormant (6) 26 Cling (to) (6)

DOWN

1 Inactive, out of use (4) 2 Beach, coastal area (7) 3 Go on all fours (5) 5 Satirical attack (7) 6 Brief film role (5) 7 Formal neckwear item (5,3) 8 Take hold of (5) 13 Laughable (8) 15 Baking container (4,3) 17 Deprive of contact (7) 18 Pertaining to a city (5) 20 Accounts check (5) 21 Nude, unclothed (5) 22 Perimeter (4)