The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
1 Faded advert covering flyer
ultimately illegible (6)
5 Succeeded fixing special
container for books (8)
9 Fruit put before wee model (8)
10 Longing of glutton to eat Indian
regularly (6)
11 Concentrated around expert and
copied (10)
12 Heartless devil turning lazy (4)
13 Doctor with time in new
concrete city abroad (8)
16 Team finished early, this
without core exercises (6)
17 Provokes points in
conversation (6)
19 Little time to be occupied with
very English activity (8)
21 Edge in church (4)
22 Goad policeman in group with
another arresting Republican (6,4) 25 Restrict speech, cutting out
introduction (6)
26 Sailor's pet Hamish clipped at
sea (8)
27 Hard having some receiving last
of wage for a year (8)
28 Ban fround leaving home tutor (6)
DOWN
2 Business bringing in a base
material (5)
3 Stripped strut put on ruler
to make more correct (5)
4 Weaken Germany and turn
on the French (7)
5 Left in charge, catches up
making design (7)
6 Bars quietly embroiled in
sad demise (7)
7 Against Greek character,
one that's upset flow (9)
8 Two rats or one? (9)
14 Shifted a tree into
position (9)
15 Call from one fencing around large home's boundary (9)
18 One injecting giving variable
resistance in minor burn (7) 19 Simplicity of style with
animal enclosure (7)
20 Five finish selling (7)
23 Performance about cry
from cat with no tail (5)
24 Note a mixed cereal (5)
ACROSS
8 In ignorance (7)
9 ___ Brontë, author of
‘Wuthering Heights’ (5) 10 Cross-legged yoga
position (5)
11 More favoured by
chance (7)
12 Preoccupied with your
own feelings (4-8)
16 Proclamation (12)
20 Showing disapproval in
the theatre (7)
23 Prepared (5)
24 Abrupt (5)
25 New York's country (7) DOWN
1 Beefy and brawny (5)
2 Keep going in difficult
circumstances (6,2)
3 ___ Central, French
plateau (6)
4 Stretch of high
moorland (4)
5 Sticky hooked
fastening fabric (6)
6 Iconic small car (4) 7 Plants raised from different parent
varieties (7)
13 First TV company (inits) (3)
14 First name of composer Britten (8) 15 Jungle knife (7)
17 For both men and women (6)
18 United (6)
19 Bird that imitates human speech (5) 21 Medieval slave (4)
22 Toothed cog (4)