CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Tunic Al used when he was mad? (7)

5. Kid: what’s Hell for? (7)

9. Swollen? Ned did set out to be so (9)

10. How one used to be dressed was fatiguing (5)

11. Scot’s own self gets Ian back, to Nell’s confusion (8)

12. Gun I’m about quietly to call in question (6)

14. He starts the fight with Roger’s gas supply (9)

16. The Terriers get a letter from Greece (5)

17. Offer an inducement to make MEP TT (5)

19. The wretched man Nat’s crime, perhaps (9)

21. A rogue taking Academicians to California (6)

22. They think too much of themselves to go it with Tess (8)

26. Move for a time at work (5)

27. ‘I will arise and go now, and go to __’ (Yeats) (9)

28. Hurried along to the Deep South, returning before the editor (7)

29. He uses money to send rep packing (7)

DOWN

1. With a cargo 50 go to Yemeni port (5)

2. Making a home, no good for getting round establishment in (7)

3. Kept woman MI’s abandoned for hair (5)

4. Huggable: could Medes be otherwise? (10)

5. Find her for the three-card trick (4)

6. It shows the flier how far down the ground is (9)

7. As hairy as her suit might be (7)

8. No longer wanted to be embarrassed: mistakenly dun worker! (9)

13. They forced people to serve papers on criminal bands (5-5)

14. They make the reader see stars (9)

15. Drew out what Tex carted around (9)

18. When bullet’s not shot if miser can’t make it (7)

20. Made certain of being a fool with rude adjustment (7)

23. Flavour, thanks to the wrong set (5)

24. Vow one wears the last first (5)

25. What blows looks as though it will crank (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across: 7. Luck of the draw 8. Letterpress

12. Spurns 14. Denied 16. Tenors 18. Raffle 19. Expressions

23. Questionnaire

Down: 1. Pull 2. Skit 3. Offers 4. Shaped 5. Edge 6. Lass 9. Equinox

10. Stiffen 11. Idle 12. Site 13. Nor 15. Era 17. Scenic 18. Resent

19. Etui 20. Pass 21. Oral 22. Surf