SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Lack of restaurant accommodation for distinguished people? (8) 5 Flying, is it part of the service? (6)

9 Arguing with someone about the taste the fish has? (8)

10 Keeps or puts back outside (6)

12 Washes the tins I’m to leave the lime in (6) 13 Catching one with a punch that’s really lovely? (8)

15 Don’t fall back, so far, in the struggle to be modern (4,2,2,4)

18 Being head and shoulders above the other ‘1 Across’? (6,2,4) 23 When the girl is in some mess, is very sweet, indeed (8)

24 Trip over, you do (6) 26 Turn on the TV and see the wild lion’s captured, all right ... (4,2) 27 ... the animal having swallowed the bait poured out: a drink (8) 28 When the female’s brought round the frames (6)

29 Feeling that adding ten to ten is wrong (8)

DOWN

1 That’s the writing on the wall, you observe (6) 2 Coin a word for someone taking the sun (6)

3 The rest can be made into a bundle (7)

4 Ages developing the negatives (4)

6 He has a notion to change his name (7) 7 The man is shielding Ivan, who got drunk in the revelry (8) 8 Unresisting, gave one’s name again (8)

11 To remain on holiday, break your journey (4,3) 14 Did he describe himself as a “21”, or clan of the moth? (7)

16 She is a lamb, going in to tidy up the mess! (8) 17 Figures the grinder is on the inside (8)

19 It’s back in the pit, growling (7)

20 Holding the darn wild cat up and it’s biting (7) 21 Guess it’s 504 plus three-quarters of nine (6) 22 To a squirrel, is one of them very like another? (6)

25 Lifted it by myself on that occasion (4)