CROSSWORD Roger Squires No. 3,460

ACROSS

1 Girl in touch with weaponry

(3,3,5)

7 The girl to take action (3)

9 Play pluckily (5)

10 Radiation from an oil-burning

vessel maybe (9)

11 Took the main course but

possibly not a sweet (4,2,3) 12 Open grassland (5)

13 Settles for ten less in

exchange (7)

15 A large community won’t

change (4)

18 Forget to leave out (4) 20 Makes light work of passing

course (7)

23 Sort of marbles Nigel played

with (5)

24 Church and state divided by

uncommon hatred (9) 26 Awfully curt cad or knave, say

(5,4)

27 All the composer required (5) 28 Eli gives a flowery greeting (3) 29 Strive to cheat as many as

possible (2,3,3,3)

DOWN

1 Saw baton wielded in Africa (8) 2 Irresolution is a failing (8) 3 Lancelot, for example, loses his

head in the dark (5)

4 Country books at jumble sales

(7)

5 Up in arms (7)

6 What an executor has? (9) 7 Communicate without

speaking? Remarkable! (6) 8 Scope of what used to be

temporary cover (6) 14 A tin medal ordered to be

plated (9)

16 Suffering from nerves, needs changed routine before cure starts (8)

17 All is not as it should be in the

stud (8)

19 Composition that calls for

assurance of touch (7) 20 Dialect around the Kremlin?

(7)

21 A leaden writer? (6) 22 Rodent that’s a bit of a drag

out in South America (6) 25 Great envy gnawed away at

the heart (5)