Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 11/07/2012

Published on 11/07/2012 03:07

Wednesday’s puzzle...

Across

1 Discarded fort, say (8)

6 Cheerful when conductor raises his baton (6)

9 Oxygen in available charged particle (3)

10 Yea, can be struggling during temporary cessation (8)

11 Make hissing sound when I leave Lizzie’s tipsily (6)

12 First person in Rouen with Hugh, said to be an old king (4)

13 Volume used by supplicants? (6-4)

15 Did with certainty arrange to use this as proof as to who one actually is (8,4)

18 Flounder currently found in riptide (12)

21 Say the opposite when Dianne is in agreement (10)

23 Female nag dislodged tooth (4)

24 Sort of status that’s odd, having minimum number for meeting (6)

26 Reflected by newspaper and its boss (8)

27 Odd characters left Dervla for another lady (3)

28 Phased out despite being in form (6)

29 Mode of reckoning dates, it’s the modern fashion (3,5)

DOWN

2 It is spun by firm body initially over the internet (6)

3 “Because it is popular”, (Shakespeare) (2,3,4,2)

4 Peg in the picture (3-2)

5 Make a model although acid set disastrously (3-4)

6 Sun’s heat helped some get out (9)

7 Dickens had bronze at regular intervals (3)

8 444 hands and feet? (3-5)

14 Where soldiers go again perhaps, it’s the wrong way round (4,2,5)

16 Old demand, limited edition was uttered boldly (9)

17 Nothing in Munich’s developing so (8)

19 Handrail managed to trap guard perhaps (7)

20 Ill during a French spring (6)

22 Cast the endless line (5)

25 Do not start to hold inscription (3)

Tuesday’s solution

Across: 1 Athlete, 5 Still, 11 Sleeping draught, 12 Doup, 13 Buses, 14 Stir, 17 Recipe, 18 Talking, 20 Coolant, 22 Benign, 24 Lest, 25 Stout, 26 Item, 29 The rite of spring, 30 Haven 31 Brothel.

Down: 2 The Queen of Sheba, 3 Lips, 4 Tonsure, 6 Thaw, 7 Lightning strike, 8 Aside, 9 Advent, 10 Storage, 15 Titan, 16 Plans, 19 Ocelots, 21 Tether, 22 Bluffer, 23 Omega, 27 Dine, 28 Spot.