Cryptic Crossword
Across
8 Summon one for each leg
splint (8)
9 Together without delay (2,4) 10 and 11 Almost permanent pelt, we hear, with rugged redundancy risk for the young? (4,2,5,3)
12 Uncover snag assessing
retelling of story (4)
13 Commissionaire instructed to
draw old wine (4,6)
15 Doctor ran lead around
kidneys (7)
17 By taking on guide, reaches
British soil (7)
20 What goats' cheese is made
of? (10)
22 Heard to conceal character who is the embodiment of evil (4)
24 Boy weighing less than pig (8) 26 Have confidence in reference
to Angus clan (4,2)
27 Stand up with proverbially quiet creatures at volcanic rock (6)
28 Give up late leks as wasted (8)
Down
1 Scholar and nurse share fruit
(6)
2 Latte far from being prepared
at fixed price (4,4)
3 Going by plane? That hasn't
been settled yet (2,2,3,3)
4 Sketch argument in favour of
line (7)
5 Place to doss down when estate owner's failed to get finished (4)
6 Hang around for role it plays
(6)
7 Butchers chopped up
composer (8)
14 Source of oil is perk all men go
to pieces over (4,6)
16 Share room, perhaps, and
multiply, or . . . (6,2)
18 . . . divide when logs have split
(2,6)
19 Become scarred when lie grew
up (7)
21 Eastern river – it runs back
grey in France (6)
23 Radioed back, excluding
imaginary number of cedar (6) 25 Go feet first into escape hatch
with these? (4)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
ACROSS: 1 Streamlined, 9 After, 10 Swan song, 12 Tension, 13 Hellene, 14 Hence, 15 Interfere, 18 Poor value, 20 Table, 21 Coerced, 24 Sparrow, 25 Fastener, 26 Pleat, 27 London Pride. DOWN: 2 Turbine, 3 Essential, 4 Meath, 5 Insular, 6 Ernie, 7 Last the pace, 8 Stun into, 11 Get even with, 16 Treasurer, 17 Embarked, 19 Vacated, 20 Trapped, 22 Erato, 23 Dinan.
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