June 25, 2008
11:43am Friday 27th June 2008
Cryptic Clues
ACROSS
1 Concede end with defensive blunder (3,4)
5 Give birth to soft thing in an animal enclosure (4,3)
9 Fine spot kick (7)
10 Near but get nearer (5-2)
11 Deviate from course near headland somewhere in Kent (9)
12 Time to muse (5)
13 Managed Church Farm (5)
15 Working article on soldiers initially disabled but recovering (2,3,4)
17 Look briefly and throw a number', I said (4,2,3)
19 Hill carries a bass drum (5)
22 Revolutionary's son is game (5)
23 What voters do to communicate something clearly (3,6)
25 I note girl's state (7)
26 Attacked daughter after accusation (7)
27 Troublesome toerag cut by Torquemada's original instrument of torture (7)
28 Foreign novel (7)
DOWN
1 Propose replacement for one making an objection (7)
2 Grandma eager for this cloth (7)
3 Unusual role involving girl as someone looking for sexual enjoyment (5)
4 Submit to the French - unknown in the past (3,6)
5 Resists money (5)
6 A cryptic note reportedly intended as expiation (9)
7 Forecast Priest meeting oriental wise man (7)
8 Insect mounted dictionary and danced (7)
14 Principal to begin with advantage (4,5)
16 Over which steeplechases take place in rural areas (3,6)
17 Hold to an opinion about youth leader caught riding a bike (7)
18 PS Upset to finish with queen's poet (7)
20 Breathe hard then shoot with weapon (7)
21 Writer to lose life after sudden attack (7)
23 Talk foolishly of changing art exercises around (5)
24 Surprisingly Rich receives a professorship (5)
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