Cryptic crossword
Across
8 Love helping with the address (7)
9 I’d left Coleridge upset with the artist (2,5)
11 A tip that it’s a dog (7)
12 Artiest form of garbs (7)
13 Stingy? The toff has good intentions (5,4)
15 Some of the characters in the Burnside album are perfect (5)
16 Prepares for the hard cash (7)
19 Rings for little birds reportedly (7)
20 Sounds like a vote against an animal noise (5)
21 Obvious, Tarzan’s love isn’t a beauty (5,4)
25 Disney film? No, it’s a little Italian (7)
26 Misses the beginnings of the Indian test and snaps (5,2)
28 The hurt pig after treatment is in a vertical position (7)
29 Austen’s heroine is after a short fool - it’s a problem (7)
DOWN
1 The Englishman repeated this type of dahlia (6)
2 The Pacific capital enters fifty into the craze (6)
3 It’s a lot of money for a lolly (4)
4 A course amongst the linden trees (6)
5 Fails to pay because of French errors (8)
6 Recover a tailless dog (8)
7 Seeks advice from the troubled son inside the sects (8)
10 Boarding when getting older? (7,2)
14 Spill the beans about the match - it’s insulting (9) 16 Manage a boxing match, from the small car? (8)
17 The hydro station where Aussies initially compete to a greater extent (8)
18 Endorses the leading utility players being included in games (8)
22 Indirectly refer to the posh ladle being restored (6) 23 Suppose the fool raised the bird (6)
24 Snare a troubled parent (6)
27 It’s out to turn traitor and it’s up to liquidise (4)
WIN
A $50 gift card goes to the first correct entry opened for Barbara Brown’s Weekend Prize Crossword. Send it in an envelope with your name and address to Your Weekend Prize Crossword, Stuff, PO Box 6341, Wellesley St, Auckland 1141 or email answers to cryptic@stuff.co.nz. The competition closes at noon on Friday and the solution will be published next week. Winner of the $50 voucher for crossword 684 on October 30 is Michael Pedlar from Lower Hutt. Congratulations, Michael.
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