|
Across | 8 | | Staple almost inserted in ripped
hat (7) |
| 9 | | Mobile tuner to hire (4,3) |
| 11 | | Famous, robust king (present name) (4-5) |
| 12 | | Disperse, backing round daughter's house (5) |
| 13 | | No royalist liberated Italian
repairman without one (15) |
| 16/1 | | Rises with cooked dish (5,4) |
| 18 | | Fixes courses (5) |
| 21 | | Cadets here weathered mid-year
calamity (8,7) |
| 23/23D | | Write on New York station's early mail system (5,4) |
| 25 | | Diving bird's remorseful feeling, having swallowed poor mole (9) |
| 27 | | Cover the woman covering
competition stage (7) |
| 28 | | Guardian of rogue by a hill (7) |
|
Down | 1 | | See 16 Across |
| 2 | | Not well into standard support (6) |
| 3 | | Take hippo out around river as top
cover (4-3,3) |
| 4 | | Playing well, style initially tells (7) |
| 5 | | It's a chore, applying pressure on board (7) |
| 6 | | Cold digs turned out to be a
symbol of record success (4,4) |
| 7/26 | | Top entertainer's shock vessel (4,4) |
| 10/24 | | Weight lifted, but even so, still
to happen (3,3) |
| 13 | | Political leader holds back
knight, the 'rainbow producer'? (5) |
| 14 | | Where hangings take place, largely
involved with RTA (3,7) |
| 15 | | Blue sodium pen (5) |
| 17 | | One gets to insult a Cuban, say (8) |
| 19 | | Little jumper for broken, twisted
leg is on time (7) |
| 20 | | Patio spread, with California
Pudding (7) |
| 22 | | Norm has no alternative,
surrounded by awful Yeti
malevolence (6) |
| 23 | | See 23 Across |
| 24 | | See 10 |
| 26 | | See 7 |
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