CROSSWORD
No. 15,476 Set by JULIUS
JOTTER PAD
ACROSS
1 The quick way/express route?
(5,6)
7 High Court strategy used by
racketeer? (3)
9 Message Cuba to return island
occupied by 7 down 8 (5)
10 Killing time before appointment
with Kismet? (5,4)
11 Author took notice of Rooney in
conversation (4,5)
12 Getting round, honours even at
first (5)
13, 15 West End comedy left 1,100
barking “Murderer!” (7,4)
18 We’ll get this burden (4)
20 Turkey fesses up about conditions
(7)
23 Poet Laureate denied high praise
in book review (5)
24 Election in Ohio I rigged for the
rabble (3,6)
26 Dependable, mature lady engaged
to reverse engineer microwave
component (9)
27 Wicked individual’s criminal
pattern discovered in study (5)
28 Fluid, unknown departure from
Maltese island (3)
29 Musical actor’s wardrobe assistant
and stylist (11)
DOWN
1 Midweek, same cafe, turns up
wearing this? (4,4)
2 Boarded vessel securely moored?
(8)
3 This is robbery (5)
4 Revolting, vulgar piercing? It
upset Yankee jeweller (7)
5 Former model in Connecticut
disappeared altogether (7)
6 Band of Brothers extended quite a
challenge (4,5)
7 Blair upset McCluskey, a
collector’s item! (6)
8 He delivers cuts (except month
end, late in the year) (6)
14 Celebrated by Her Majesty,
breaking open the tinnie! (9)
16 Makes more passionate seminal
work featuring overture from
Figaro (8)
17 One transferring a southern
Italian chap (8)
19 Lively movements saved Chopin
from schizophrenic turmoil (7)
20 Slough pub packed, swarmed (7)
21 Something smuggled in for
Spooner’s stir-crazed inmate?
(3,3)
22 Slow-moving American soldier
gets in trouble (6)
25 Veteran Boat Race participant lost
a grand (5)
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