The Herald on Sunday crosswords

ACROSS

1 Underhand dealings made by leading

firm on Monday (6,8)

9 Extent of mountains (5)

10 Outgrowth attached to best cake (5,4) 11 Sort of cat sees I am distressed (7)

12 Punishment when money supplied,

with article nicked (7)

13 Piquancy of citrus peel (4)

14 Examiner’s to look at alternative (9) 18 Like a particle of tooth hiding

cryptic clue (9)

20 Clothing with diamonds, perhaps? (4) 22 Agrees with Tom’s first friends (7)

25 Terrible Red Ivan - he enters a country

by force (7)

26 Release old, cattier version (9)

27 Speak through door at embassy (5) 28 Roughly seek rye product for

operation (7,7)

DOWN

1 Gloomy doctor got up (6)

2 Number zero, cut in without equal (9)

3 Mountain woman needs a break (7)

4 Graduate finds strange article relating

to germs (9)

5 Very much inclined to soak (5)

6 Candidate, one muddled about pit (7)

7 Cut second outgrowth (5)

8 At home, meal gets relatives extremely

weepy (2,5)

15 Sun rises again, lost in grumpy

behaviour (9)

16 Mixing dirt with earth, poor quality (5-4) 17 Many dump teenagers concealing it (7) 19 Irish knees-up? Maybe I lied in

church (7)

20 Redeemer coming in various

disguises (7)

21 Slow-moving, causing sensation of

horror or fear (6)

23 As usual a thermic part of machine (5) 24 It’s a wrap! (5)

ACROSS

1 Second-hand motor (4,3)

5 Electrical resistance units (4)

9 Piece of mesh for the head (7) 10 Energetic Cuban dance (5)

11 An Ideal Husband writer (5) 12 Suggestive (6)

14 Hurricanes, typhoons (6)

16 Motto (6)

18 Dill-like aromatic plant (6)

19 Palpitate (5)

22 Short and fat (5)

23 Nodded off (7)

24 Seed cases (4)

25 Border of a path (7)

DOWN

2 Unmoving (5)

3 School lunch fee (6,5)

4 Transforms (6)

6 German city on the Elbe (7) 7

8 Large eastern estuary (3,4) 10 New Year’s promises (11) 13 No particular person (7)

15 Make a higher offer (7)

17 Largest US state (6)

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21

Shoot up (4)

Bulldozed (5)

Tread (4)