Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 23/06/2012

By DEREK ALLEN
Published on 23/06/2012 01:46

Saturday’s puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Meat juices in art splashed about in job offering high reward for little effort (5,5)

7 Miss a festivity (4)

9 Old chief’s expression of surprise (3)

10 Inconvenience with slight pain (10)

11 Missionaries’ centre (4)

12 Healthy enough to scrape a living (3,2,1,6)

15 Promise on board, weapons (6)

17 Dial relaxed (4-4)

18 Majority in star role! (4,4)

20 Most favourable information about veteran (6)

21 Boxer glided with me at random (12)

24 One taking reversible material found in the sea (4)

26 Great skill cooking burger (10)

27 North American Indian appearing regularly in bustle (3)

28 Reject plans for junk-mail (4)

29 Again plan here 500 clues indiscriminately (10)

DOWN

2 Feeling contrite, no end of destruction (4)

3 Unfortunate fat divorcee cried out (11)

4 Try badly? (5)

5 Stimulation excited Laura so (7)

6 Giving information about particular disease perhaps (9)

7 Weighing content of clarified butter (3)

8 Left and bolted when cut off from the sea (10)

13 Detailed bit suffering having been weakened (11)

14 Gathering dust! (8,2)

16 Verges can possibly supply his food (9)

19 Mine’s following article that’s absolute worst thing (3,4)

22 Pull up child from deep valley (5)

23 Unbelievably high (4)

25 Singular drink (3)

Friday’s solution

Across: 1 Pasture, 5 Hotspot, 9 Leisure, 10 Megaton, 11 Mistletoe, 12 Shear, 13 Ceres, 15 Read in bed, 16 Signalled, 18 Emma’s, 21 Sisal, 22 Existence, 24 Oversee, 26 Kneecap, 27 No sweat, 28 Elapses.

Down: 1 Polemic, 2 Scissor, 3 Usual, 4 Electoral defeat, 5 Hammer and sickle, 6 Tog, 7 Potherb, 8 Tenured, 12 Spine, 14 Shawl, 16 Sassoon, 17 Gaskets, 19 Menac es, 20 Sherpas, 23 Theta, 25 Sue.

Last week’s solution

Across: Money box, Pagoda, Egg cup, Adequacy, Anon, Deism, Flip, Air on a G String, Bactrian, Camel, Slow, Hirer, Dock, Ave Maria, Brainy, Jaunty, Sentence

Down: Organza, Bolivia, Eccentric, Woman, Bipe, Northerly, X-raying, Arrears, Pneumatic, Robin, Gruff, Immediate, Ducting, Laconic