CLASSIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Salad ingredient also found around carpet (6)

9 Unlucky fall, with tide out (3-5)

10 Within a motorway, beginning to drive (4)

11 Unwanted person’s fruit (10)

12 They play noisily, right inside rotten tree stump (10)

14 Spy – one going underground (4)

15 Type of surgery, essential on cavity (7)

17 Rotating vessel amid sound of bell (7)

20 Speak unclearly of defamation (4)

22 Duke getting the boot (10)

24 Fed up with beng toasted? (7,3)

26 Metal rule (4)

27 Match – spoil one during storm (8)

28 An alto performed with no established key (6)

DOWN

1 Restrain by force about two thousand in trade (8)

2 Chance order to go after money (6)

3 Poet, tall bloke? (10)

4 Don’t follow orders, then cry, given E in homework (7)

5 Hint left inside stick (4)

6 Represent Le Mans as company agent (8)

7 Fuel droplet won’t start spreading (6)

13 Do with flautist wrecked bedsit (6,4)

16 Metal tools for difficult conflict, note (8)

18 Leant on a building in early life (8)

19 Role man arranged for charity worker (7)

21 A trial out for the rope (6)

23 Liquid measure to continue to annoy? (6)

25 Made processed cheese (4)

ACROSS

1 Give in (to) (7)

5 Briefly summarise (5)

8 Oust from a dwelling (5)

9 Domineer (7)

10 Coaching (8)

11 State clearly (4)

13 Wax light with a wick (6)

15 Mariner (6)

18 Surge (4)

19 Hurting (8)

22 In a ship (2,5)

23 Cowboy’s rope (5)

24 Droopy (5)

25 Quick tyre-change! (3,4)

DOWN

1 Mistrustful person (7)

2 Porcelain (5)

3 Straighten out (8)

4 After (6)

5 Lease, hire out (4)

6 Herb of the parsley family (7)

7 Fire prodder (5)

12 Armoured glove (8)

14 Horse’s muzzle feeder (7)

16 Make a new formation (7)

17 Delay (4,2)

18 Income before tax (5)

20 Embedded graphic (5)

21 Simple to do (4)