CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Wrong about good job for marker

(8)

5 Issues summit discuss regularly (6)

9 What to wear if changing gear in sandhills? (9)

11 Private meal with no end of

food

(5)

12 Credit almost consumed - cause a furore (6)

13 Withdrew material prior to broadcast (8)

15 Check flower for new life (13)

18 Wonder about European crossing border for scam (7,6)

22 Principled person's haze about exam (8)

23 Spell name to be kept in touch

(6)

26 The top of carpet pile must be

tacky (5)

27 Programme a religious leader and artist put on like this (4,5)

28 I may be a red, for example (6)

29 Landlord's silence worried last of clientele (8)

[(W_XWORD)]Down

1 One hurried to go up on board ship for drinks (8)

2 Information about school of painting, say (5)

3 Material confronting some

surgeons? (7)

4 Tissue-type full of fat? (4)

6 Old pal from Paris stocking equipment for such art (7)

7 One caring about unfamiliarity (9)

8 Casts off, crossing river for scraps

(6)

10 Custodians or cooks pinching a case of red (8)

14 Building bases for discussion (8)

16 Seconds may be this

tense (9)

17 Languish in love? Get a teacher (8)

19 Fall back and soldiers leap off, surrounding son (7)

20 Eat away seeing bar in centre (7)

21 Fires across bow of motor boats (6)

24 Requirements of daughter employed in topless joints (5)

25 Team hiding under mother's skirt (4)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

Across: 1 Miniseries, 6 Echo, 10 Ingot, 11 Stage left, 12 Starship, 13 Range,

15 Open-top, 17 Emperor, 18 Shallow, 21 Cat's-paw, 23 Motor, 24 Snapshot, 27 A bit thick, 28 Rioja, 29 Edge,

30 Shortbread

Down: 1 Maid, 2 Nightie, 3 Sitar,

4 Rosehip, 5 Example, 7 Cleaner,

8 On the prowl, 9 Decrepit, 14 Consummate, 16 Tolerate, 19 Althing, 20 Waspish, 21 Cracker, 22 Provoke, 25 Scrub, 26 Band

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