CLASSIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
9 Rodent to stop flying pig! (9)
10 Wine Jo and Ira blended (5)
11 Sailor with mark will not vote (7)
12 Show prize from love in winding street (7)
13 Shortening a type of loan (9)
16 Yours truly’s given time to make picture (5)
17 Diverse article he read relieved tension (7,3,3)
20 Contest a marriage (5)
21 Coffee lets you begin at once (9)
24 I arrive, flustered, in the Cannes area (7)
25 Said vegetable to mature is a waste (7)
27 Worth seeing university in lowland area (5)
28 He sold ale, unusually, in this sort of property (9)
DOWN
1 Reptile found in Antigua naturally (6)
2 Gardening implements on garden pipe, we hear (4)
3 Country not starting away from the sea (6)
4 Next number hard to hold (4)
5 Collects together building materials (10)
6 Respect Penny and the others, eg one returning (8)
7 Say the opposite when Dianne is in agreement (10)
8 Food supplier prepared terrace (7)
14 Somewhat lively rate of exchange (10)
15 Mobile vet in Libya as a matter of course (10)
18 During the aftermath let escape the runners (8)
19 Better for little devil to wander (7)
22 Humiliated when getting into a cot (6)
23 End piece of toy slide loosens and gives way (6)
25 Jacob’s wife found grassland hard (4)
26 Missing a sad return (inits) (4)
ACROSS
1 Suffering a skin irritation (7)
5 Needles, annoys (4)
8 Cries of derision (5)
9 Marcher, hiker (7)
11 Forearm bone (4)
12 Baby you present at baptism (8)
15 (Of shoes) without laces or velcro (3-2)
16 Floppy-eared Disney character (5)
19 Octogenarian’s decade (8)
21 Con, fool (4)
23 ___ Redgrave, veteran actress (7)
25 Rain and snow (5)
26 From Monday to Sunday (4)
27 Single performer (in a concerto) (7)
DOWN
2 Routing (9)
3 Quieten (4)
4 Idea, thought (6)
5 Sort, type (3)
6 Prepare to pray (5)
7 Raise the shoulders (5)
10 Does very well (6)
13 Trespassers (9)
14 Richard ___, Blackadder writer (6)
17 Small boat driven by the feet (6)
18 Profundity (5)
20 Angry, enraged (5)
22 Petrol company (4)
24 Largest living deer (3)