CROSSWORD
No. 15,492 Set by LOROSO
JOTTER PAD
ACROSS
1 Many a duck fed crackers in
past week (1,4,3)
6 Blocked airline stops car (6)
9 10, describing sentiment, gets
ironic encouragement (2,2,2)
10 Academic turned dirty without
censor (8)
11 Basically, like rambler without
company (10)
12 What ultimately welcomes the
caller? (4)
13 Balance in the dressing room?
(6)
15 Sweet seems strangely out of
fashion (4,4)
18 Spooner’s baby-size bubbly
stuff? (4,4)
20Milk and old cake unfinished (6)
21 End of message cut short in
public (4)
23 Extremely tough guards cooked
dinner (10)
25 Silly idea about animals in
prayer (5,3)
26 Country air on part of colony’s
border (6)
27 Nothing earned, I’ll keep
working (2,4)
28Welsh town’s second university
in about 30 days (8)
DOWN
2 Moss pulverised with shortened
axe (6,3)
3 Australian joke a breath of fresh
air? (5)
4 Delicate – and more so – about
good clue (9)
5 Fight with others, being gutless,
like (7)
6 Chance to escape to border
country (5)
7 Fine header’s off – invite
another shot (9)
8 Clay pots I love for mayonnaise
(5)
14 Die from something added to
drink (5-4)
16 On twisting road, new RV in red
(9)
17 Tough line over one area of
treatment (9)
19 At sea, mist encompasses our
travel concerns? (7)
22 Particular eater of Dutch
sandwiches for example (5)
23 Royal house staff heading off
but returning (5)
24Old car with alien passenger, 21
(5)
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