The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
1 Typical delegate (14)
9 Wildly paces the room (5)
10 Power play in large garden
requires written documents (9) 11 Very heavy fall of rain and so on,
after Monday (7)
12 Back by coastal area shortly with
new weapons (7)
13 Old weapon for private in
Dad’s Army (4)
14 In rodeo, wild eleven contained
rust (4,5)
18 A small department head joins,
having the skill (9)
20 Reading through poem, maybe
novel (4)
22 Fruit, a necessity back in
South Africa (7)
25 Outside old castle without
a decorative disc (7)
26 Showing agreement when
holding youngster – it’s true (2,7) 27 Odd and tangled saying (5)
28 Corny issue resolved, bank on
formal ending (5,9)
DOWN
1 Start again by returning large
birds to queen (6)
2 Woeful five wearing no flashy
neckwear (9)
3 Said, I viewed something
horrible (7)
4 Old vessels I’ve to make
spacious (9)
5 Caught a piranha devouring
animal (5)
6 Rent-a-party twister (7)
7 Engine sound from front of valve
chamber (5)
8 Theologian was on a slope
circling, but lost control (7)
15 Hormone replacement for
gene’s root (9)
16 Instant means of communication
in time, perhaps (9)
17 Not all demerara is in sponge
cake ingredients (7)
19 Weather heard from above, this
is disappearing beneath (7)
20 Notes old coin accepted by
tutor (7)
21 Tired agent receives American
general (6)
23 Capital city’s Kyoto? That’s
wrong (5)
24 Section of telegram is surely
wrong (5)
ACROSS
3 Ermine, for instance (3)
7 Yacht basin (6)
8 Cocktail fruits (6)
9 Skin spots (8)
10 Go in front (4)
11 Hillocks, mounds (6)
12 Tints (6)
15 All but (6)
18 Spiny plant (6)
20 Celestial body (4)
22 Ridges of hair on the
forehead (8)
23 Came to an end, became
void (6)
24 Military knapsack (3-3) 25 A Perfect ___, John le
Carré novel (3)
DOWN
1 Sponsor (6)
2 Round in shape (8)
3 Tales with a moral
lesson (6)
4 Bakes (meat) (6)
5 High area of land (4) 6 Dennis the ___, comic character (6) 11 Knowledge, understanding (3) 13 Faithfully depicting the truth (8) 14 Appeal for help or rescue (inits) (3) 16 Accessories (6) 17 Surrenders (6) 18 Grating (6) 19 Take off (packaging) (6) 21 Coarse file (4)