SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Truly regarding friendly
country (6)
9 One moves in favour of
problem (8)
10 Frank actors at the
mine (4-4)
11 Tray for everyone held
by favourite (6)
12 Means test reform for
politicians (9)
13 Record Scottish expression for a time (5)
16 Sheep having to breathe heavily on hind legs (7)
18 Medical sign, start of mumps, after my top’s removed (7)
20 Lead found by the
French tree (5)
21 Altar base could be a
type of gypsum (9)
24 Barney becomes
close (6)
26 One ruined life in former fuel-rich region (8)
27 Fellow player twice
cooks meat (4-4)
28 Look now and then to find children’s apparatus (3-3)
DOWN
1 Repeat pert performance to offend! (10)
2 Mercury, say, showing temperature on flat surface (6)
3 Close to overtaking yet
avoiding (9)
4 Small talk creating
splash (7)
5 Sauce! Keeping very
soft and sentimental (5) 6 Tablet in water taken
up, which is sweet (8)
7 Nothing more than a
pond (4)
14 First two of clues on next page that may bring you luck (10)
15 Noisy instrument is medium with hidden meaning (9)
17 Pam, with a stir, cooked
seasoned beef (8)
19 Finished covering (3,4) 22 Sniff with nose initially
in pulled-up jeans (6)
23 Noisy junior flyer (5)
25 Weapon among the
peelings (4)
THE XFILES
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2021-10-22T07:00:00.0000000Z
2021-10-22T07:00:00.0000000Z
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