THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1198

An Ettinger travel pass case and two Connell Guides will be given to the sender of the first correct solution to the crossword and the clue of the week opened on Monday 9 March. Send it to: The Week Crossword 1198, 2nd floor, 32 Queensway, London W2 3RX, or email the answers to crossword@theweek.co.uk. Tim Moorey (timmoorey.info)

ACROSS

1 Work place for Labour? (10)

6 Not entirely luxurious sign of more to come (4)

9 Study once more on King and Knight (7)

10 Veteran against short question (7) 12 Strange Irish run for King’s Head in tremor (5)

13 Sort of energy helping to keep return of support up (9)

14 Battles that typically precede matches? (11)

16 Tool that’s complete spoken of (3) 18 It paves the way for Jack (3) 19 South Koreans pry? Could be styled as such (4,7)

22 Space on flight – Newark internally still working (5,4)

23 Little French favourite has sex appeal (5)

25 Inner organ part in programme dull always (7)

26 Fabulous creature to agree with artist (7)

27 Fish and chips, enter shed (4) 28 Star position of Oman’s capital! (7,3)

DOWN

1 Sort queen out when asked (2,7) 2 Dot may be associated with this dance (5)

3 It’s an old assembly, says senior army officer (6-7)

4 Harry Truman behind tense outburst (7)

5 Couple of cricket sides showing continually (2,3,2)

7 Awfully quiet lad tackling industry’s head gets wind up (9)

8 Hank, one German following unopened request (5)

11 Print on racist could be represented as this (13)

15 Herb garden more wild, nothing less (9)

17 LA transit is fantastic – don’t miss it! (4,5)

20 Look at messenger boy running out slowly (7)

21 Lousy types in case maintained order (7)

22 Some of webcam usually set up in a tree (5)

24 Time on a Channel Island with a measure of heat (5)