CLASSIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Elaborate lights required where chairs
need to be set out - about 50 (18 11)
8 Offering cover to a VIP may be
exciting (11)
11 Sort of steak served by Royal
Academy, almost red? (4)
12 Work for arena concealing a limp (4)
13 Plunder cloaked by
compassion and integrity (7)
15 Design that is legal in church porch (7) 16 Doctor Doyle singing in Alps (5)
17 Sort of ferry in Tobermory not met by
contracts (2-2)
18 Wild ram with head of Egyptian horse (4) 19 Cancel arranging fit to make this Latin
fun (5)
21 Commercial activity that’s commercial in
Hertfordshire town (7)
22 Doesn’t wolf choose sheep avoiding
their heads? (5,2)
23 Grass that’s blown into (4)
26 Conceited individual’s first to get into
commercial vehicle (4)
27 Last hymn for line moving with a cross
round back of nave (11)
28 Embarrassing mishap to PM’S recent
changes (11)
DOWN
2 Rent both Ireland houses (4)
3 Unusual experience only vet can
put right (7)
4 What did you say about
air-conditioning for everyone? (4)
5 How to express sum with no Latin
translation (2,5)
6 Wander over ground (4)
7 Kind of school that’s laid out paper
or tray for correction (11)
8 One who could correct poor ref
and dare to be corrected (11)
9 Are all changes round Slough in
Herald? (4,7)
10 Nine: it moved round the others,
grand and attractive (11)
14 Second person with neuter gender
originally is hardly 19 (5)
15 Located for instance on rising
ridiculous outfit (3-2)
19 Old, decayed canine gets start of
treatment (7)
20 Flexible soles I’m bending (7)
24 Parade in Delaware and
Missouri (4)
25 Man for example lies foolishly (4) 26 Virginia - politician and fascinating
woman (4)
ACROSS
7 Belly or waist
area (7)
9 Alter to fit (5)
10 Large skate-like
fish (3)
11 Traumatic (9)
12 ‘ The Pied ___ of
Hamelin’, story (5) 14 With fury (7)
16 Needless
bureaucracy (3,4) 18 Deadly (5)
19 Experiencing
renewal (9)
20 Golf expert (3)
21 Extra, left over (5) 22 Exudation (7)
DOWN
1 Lacking
modesty (8)
2 Swirl round (4)
3 Box-like stringed
instrument (6)
4 Indian snack (6)
5 Ship's cargo list (8) 6 Antlered male
animal (4)
8 Stealth (11)
13 Plinth (8)
15 Became jaundiced (8)
17 Concurred (6)
18 Make (an animal) plump (6) 19 Increase (4)
20 Scheme of action (4)