1 Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

8 9 10 11 12 14 15 17 19 21 24 26 27 28

DOWN

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Across:

9 Imprecise, 10 Roots, 11 Outpost, 12 Restful, 13 Newsflash, 16 Ladle, 17 Direct current, 20 Baste, 21 Nastiness, 24 Crashes, 25 Abusive, 27 Nylon, 28 Elopement.

Down:

1 Disown, 2 Spot,

3 Set off, 4 Mint, 5 Hearth-rugs, 6 Wrestler, 7 Confidence, 8 Psalter, 14 Whitstable, 15 Astonished, 18 Elephant, 19 Obscene, 22 Inured, 23 Sheath, 25 Amok, 26 Ilex.

Blackbeard, perhaps, puts deserter into Mad Jim's due about midnight to form pastry dish (6)

a wrong conclusion (8) Regretted departmental chaos, some made redundant (8) Either way, it's grass! (6)

A jam pot is slightly open (4) Organises the bottom selections (10) About to ask for an encore (10) Mistake to raise students (4-2) Source of temptation at the front of the throat? (5,5) Let out when prison sentence is up (4) Musical symbol – A,B,C,D,F or G? (4) Get in position, for example (8) Understand messenger's offered leak Riposte offered by vessel (6)

(7)

Group of English counties against ale Though terribly rude, she is shown to a seat (7) being drunk (4,6)

At about eleven, a drinking driver Flower – proper flower (8) should call for it! (4) Guess I'm to go into property (8) Prison for small child raised in a cave?

(10) A place for a tree-lined street (6) Ironing, you might say, is going down An offer by journalist must be endured (10) (6)

Title of some Latin American (4)

Little kingdom on a coastline, a little Fair-weather friend's term of address?

(8) principality (6)

Spur visible, we hear? (6) 25 A group of detectives is bitter (4)

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