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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 27 Jun 2006
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Across
7. One maiden needing drink, a foreign female to nag (9)
8. Quick to make a vile mistake (5)
10. Leave office, picking up perhaps budgie's feathers (4,4)
11. They're attached solely for foot coverage (6)
12. Frank lovebird (4)
13. Strangely, his employer is ready to take him on again (2-6)
15. Fine for extra parting comment (4-3)
17. Loved going out around mid-evening all spruced up (7)
20. A wealthy Japanese clique (3,5)
22. Committee appointed to judge a competition (4)
25. The illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents (2-4)
26. Inconspicuous position-but not for this driver (8)
27. Thrash an awkward beast (5)
28. The sound of early Beatles' performances, maybe (9)
Down
1. Good understanding (5)
2. 'The voice of the people' (3,3)
3. Yet a turn-up restrains rent solicitor (8)
4. Extricate from entanglement (7)
5. Might legitimate prey flap their way onto this trap? (8)
6. Open throttle too wide and reduce to helplessness (9)
9. Underground TV? (4)
14. The time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun (5,4)
16. The state of being weak in health or body (esp, from old age) (8)
18. Marked by low spirits (8)
19. Small, shallow-draft boat with armament, used by coastal patrols (7)
21. Urban settlement to the West and North (4)
23. Coming up, so is to call around (6)
24. Albert _____ - Fr. author 'Caligula' (5)