Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 24/07/12

Published on 24/07/2012 00:00

Tuesday’s puzzle...

ACROSS

8 Procession is held in the Garden of Eden (8)

9 You’ve never heard it so good! (6)

10 Girl made in hell (6)

11 A chic lot gather in church (8)

12 and 13 Keep your coat on — don’t throw a punch (4,4,1,5)

15 Loved to get something new and be prettied up (7)

17 Please have a bet on wealthy widow (7)

20 Pudding’s got smell of old spice, perhaps (10)

22 Frightfully posh person you said had soya-based food (4)

24 Light-coloured pheasant is just asking to be shot at (4,4)

26 Old boy took a look — and did what he was told (6)

27 and 28 The strange men claim right to change their underwear (6,8)

DOWN

1 Cope with male menopause, perhaps (6)

2 Nomad drew near, bewitched (8)

3 People eating outside choose numbers 27 and 28, we hear (10)

4 London police appoint players to see what to expect from the skies (7)

5 Short dog took the first place (4)

6 Walk slowly down the street with continuing success (6)

7 Natural ability, with change of second, to achieve height (8)

14 The chairman is seen to be concealing nothing (5,5)

16 Act includes notable achievement but is not the winner (8)

18 Enter lad, playfully, dressed as a stag (8)

19 Nag Rome to revamp French dish with Italian name (7)

21 Ground a gravel-voiced singer (6)

23 Defies taboo by entering carnival (6)

25 A western railway has gone in the wrong direction (4)

Monday’s solution

Across: 1 Keep one’s word, 8 Overact, 9 Solvent, 11 Niff, 12 Embroiders, 14 Outing, 15 Internee, 17 Carbines, 19 Reveal, 22 Interposed, 23 Scut, 25 Not here, 26 Looks to, 27 Ostentatious.

Down: 1 Keep-fit, 2 Exam, 3 On time, 4 Ensuring, 5 Well I never, 6 Roedean, 7 Go into action, 10 Tessellation, 13 Antifreeze, 16 Redolent, 18 Rotates, 20 Excuses, 21 Merlot, 24 Solo.