CROSSWORD
No. 15,458 Set by ALBERICH
JOTTER PAD
ACROSS
1 Put pole in punt for scorer (6)
5 Save hard, keeping year free to
see where 1’s celebrated (8)
9 Work for American touring
terrific area of Canada (8)
10 Confine crowd of 1,000 that’s
calm without leader (6)
11 Hang out with a fellow Asian (6)
12 Pure tar’s a dissolved substance
(8)
14 Hear Rite of Spring, opus
primarily composed to make a lot
of noise (5,3,4)
18 Extremely nice to see? Yeah,
remarkably close to dishy!
(4,2,3,3)
22 Hot with fury about unsolicited
company (6-2)
25 Almost a crime, we’re told, to
provide vitamin (6)
26 Ungenerous sort having average
income, but not content (6)
27 State employee comprehends
nameless Chinese symbols (8)
28 One guts flounders, having
caught river fish (8)
29 Provinces having year for fine
crops (6)
DOWN
2 One’s following priest around
Italian town (6)
3 Try on exotic clothes the woman
left – it could be a blast! (9)
4 Standard newspaper’s first to
come into fashion again (3,6)
5 Rapid succession of violent
incidents in pub? (7)
6 Good heavens! Yankee president
succeeded! (5)
7 Praise former work, not current
(5)
8 Sent back short letter about
hospital’s fund-raising
programme (8)
13 Join me periodically for a drink
(3)
15 Raunchy, semi-nude dancing
creates uproar (3,3,3)
16 Note: cut up egg and grill again
(2-7)
17 Bird in a scrape, being swallowed
by cat? (8)
19 Some borrow euros – they’ll do
this (3)
20One who carried out a suspended
sentence? (7)
21 Expert takes care penning one
last letter (6)
23 Government’s big lie creates a
hopeless case (5)
24 Touring Spain always upset old
magistrate (5)
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