Crosswords Set by: Hectence Monday 20 June 2016 20.00 EDT Quiptic crossword No 866 Print | Accessible version Set by: Hectence Monday 20 June 2016 20.00 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email View more sharing options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Google+ Share on WhatsApp Share on Messenger Close 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Across 1 Nationalist Irishman's in charge after civil unrest (9) 6 Have no medicine that contains poison (5) 9 Baby seal's over popular as poster subject (3-2) 10 Talked incessantly to academic on walk (7,2) 11 Producer's chasing costume for seamstress (10) 12 New game's wicked (4) 14 Nothing to prevent a bird from flying, in theory (7) 15 Highest of everybody in exam (7) 17 Novel, The Slap, has many ups and downs (3,4) 19 Goes with brush to clean toilet (7) 20 Record change of life (4) 22 One brain cell mutation results in genius (10) 25 Jack's belly is upset by a rotten sweet (5,4) 26 Setter's heard to inform on cake decoration (5) 27 Rasher coming over without taxi? (5) 28 Criminal betrayed when 500 found inside cuddly toy (5,4) Down 1 Brought in by tube, Johnny's back about one (5) 2 Argentine cultivated fruit (9) 3 With road up, meeting could be out of the question (10) 4 Prepare Queen to come in to land (7) 5 Company's top man meant heartless remark (7) 6 Quarrel over housing for climbing animal (4) 7 Push on out of crumbling dungeon (5) 8 Island that developed a new cocktail? (9) 13 Town's supporting return of its beer in spring (10) 14 Sacked when blooming oaf botched task (3,2,1,3) 16 Dear old love's thoughtful (9) 18 Help in seedy taverns (7) 19 Put off action capture amateur (7) 21 Purple patch regularly follows ill wind (5) 23 Very willing listener welcomes good ending to tale (5) 24 Sing praises of that man on the radio (4)
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