CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Have a hard time in boozer’s disease due to thirst (7) 5 Fell over, having taken LSD, say (7) 9 Exact way to put lever around City of London (7) 10 Take advantage of Palestine Liberation Organisation to go out round about (7) 11 Dish of stew upset _ O! Careless! (9) 12 ‘Twill feature nothing (5) 13 Occupy extremely sharp final position (5) 15 Most genuine state achieved following holiday (9) 16 Promoter who’s in charge of accepting local record (9) 18 N early secure young dog at full tilt (3,2) 21 Achieved because was able to manage on a

low income (3,2) 22 A nice old place, a Scotland of old (9) 24 Tell story about pouring alcoholic drink into soft drink (7) 26 I have no involvement with Scottish hero (7) 27 I spread alarm and despondency (7) 28 Birth of sibling after information on original embryo (7) DOWN 1 Profiles of French inhabitants of 22 (7) 2 Be in charge like a bishop? (7) 3 Initially give rise to eminence in the background (5) 4 It’s not foggy by the sea when no-one’s watching (3,5,2,5) 5 Who can say why the secret is being kept? (6,2,7) 6 One member is a mischief maker (3) 7 Potential prose I’m working on (7) 8 I rotted away in Great Lakes city (7) 12 Money-box, perhaps, of most wealthy not counting king and emperor (5) 14 Flower is stocked within 24 hours (5) 16 Scots exhausted dog who went in front following girl (7) 17 Early gamble I take upon me with initial speculation (7) 19 Quietly steals along and steals away (7) 20 Earnest requests made by team members changing sides (7) 23 Pulled as described (5) 25 Expression of realisation at a happy intervention (3)