DINGBATS CROSSWORD

This puzzle blends cryptic, concise and general knowledge clues – as well as picture clues from our Dingbats archive. Answer below.

Across

8 Scheme (4) 9 Large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns and an elongated muzzle (10) 10 Economise seconds before squeeze (6) 11 Annual publication (8) 12 Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, lover of Queen Guinevere (8) 14 James – – –, 2008 Olympic Middleweight boxing gold medallist (6) 16 Kate – – –, journalist whose autobiography The Kindness Of Strangers was published in 2002 (4) 17-18 See Dingbat A (5,4) 19 Fashions (6) 21 Northern region of Belgium (8) 23-27 See Dingbat B (8,10) 26 Talkative (6) 27 See 23 28 Muck in at random I reckon (4)

DOWN

1 See Dingbat C (10) 2 Surround (8) 3 City and capital of the state of Madhya Pradesh, India (6) 4 Harold Clayton – – –, US chemist who discovered deuterium in 1932, Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1934) (4) 5 Delayed, drat! Entangled in rush (8) 6 See Dingbat D (6) 7 Capital of Norway (4) 13 One who steals (5) 15 Written works (10) 17 Strait on which Istanbul sits (8) 18 BBC TV sitcom that starred Arthur Lowe (4,4) 20 Nicéphore – – –, French chemist and photographic pioneer who died in 1833 (6) 22 Adriatic port in Marche, Italy, founded by Greek settlers from Syracuse (6) 24 Cockney tramp heard instrument (4) 25 Southernmost Great Lake (4)