SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Manage to telephone when you finish (3,7) 6 Cordial when you’re nearing success in your search (4)

10 Mum will be bound to get in a temper if you search (7)

11 Caught the other wild duck inside: it’s puffed (7) 12 It will make you hungry for the pies pater cooked (9)

13 The VC could be a plant (5)

14 I believe the interior of the house should be brightly coloured (5) 15 The previously restored Whistler is going to the East (9)

17 Is trigger-happy and is a spendthrift (9)

20 What the hitch-hiker gets, or pinches (5)

21 The beginning of spring (5)

23 After trains I take a taxi and motor back with the knick-knacks (9) 25 The river of love, I croon foolishly (7)

26 The head boy goes in to get proof (7)

27 The language about an extremely pretty girl! (4)

28 For which the dun is going to the colony? (10)

DOWN

1 Was mad about the girl (5)

2 Get your metronome out – or a clock (9)

3 State of affairs? (5,9) 4 Are in charge and concerned with, you understand (7)

5 What those pushy parents have for their children! (2-5)

7 More or less in the opposite direction (5) 8 Give up smoking? That’s very good! (9) 9 Don’t tamper with a shaft that’s adequate (5,4,5)

14 This is what started the row (9)

16 It will annoy the Russian if Etna is about to erupt (9)

18 A lady doctor came in with him (7)

19 Pop takes the pets out to exercise a wee bit (7) 22 It’s wrong to give the girl a start (5)

24 Do put the tom-cat out (5)