Cryptic crossword

Published on Thursday 2 July 2009 18:57

By Ros Sherard

ACROSS

1 Where to get clean but come back with hot mark (7)

5 Graffiti artist, perhaps, tears up fee card (7)

9 Great Scot's one of the intellectual socialists (7)

10 I hear boy going to stream gets extreme tanning (7)

11 Being replaced is stressful, they say (9)

12 Normal movement inside Swedish port (5)

13 Sweet for Sir Alan? (5)

15 Such capital mirth – it's killing! (9)

16 Ruction involving copper grammes (9)

18 Is pea turning brown? (5)

21 Inform about drug (5)

22 Reformed cad to live life of luxury in Italy (5,4)

24 Support partner met on the internet? (7)

26 Blunder about heart of squirrel produced beast as tall as they come (7)

27 Barbie's young flames? (7)

28 Trifles with cat (7)

DOWN

1 Knocks dim sums, perhaps (7)

2 Putting off volunteers' finery (7)

3 Destroyed fete (5)

4 Registered office for motivational lecture? (8,7)

5 Deeper past is murky, coming to light in serious predicament (9,6)

6 Cool down ardent supporter (3)

7 Tip assigned two lines (7)

8 Said to rate our hard feelings (7)

12 Wise man sends periodical to America (5)

14 Founder of one old city turns another upside down (5)

16 Part of FBI in group (7)

17 Cut down thickness of wool and put on again (7)

19 Settle the whole bill? That sounds rather distressing (7)

20 Rouses to ask wean out (7)

23 Rumoured to 'ave made a mistake (5)

25 Explore tableau for mysterious craft (3)

Thursday's solution

Across: 1 Picture palace, 10 Ancient, 11 Enlarge, 12 Debt, 13 Cover, 14 Pine, 17 Unsheathe, 19 Hydra, 20 Sprat, 22 Rethreads, 24 Rove, 25 Swarm, 27 Stir, 30 Earmuff, 31 Outback, 32 Be that as it may.

Down: 2 Incubus, 3 Them, 4 Ratio, 5 Precedent, 6 Lull, 7 Carried, 8 Wardour Street, 9 General strike, 15 Rents, 16 Short, 18 Throw a fit, 21 Reverse, 23 Althaea, 26 Roots, 28 Bush, 29 Stet.