Crosswords Set by: Anto Monday 26 September 2016 20.00 EDT Quiptic crossword No 880 Print | Accessible version Set by: Anto Monday 26 September 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 On the street is she happy sheltering in alcove? (3,4) 5 Fashionable county has no time for dangerous game (7) 9 Track soldiers retreating after losing their leader (5) 10 Old school friend goes in wild alarm … (4,5) 11 … to engage in hand to hand combat! (3,7) 12 Can you see the beginnings of growth? (4) 14 They often fly together in a row (4,3,4) 18 How old school builder schedules installation of facilities (6,5) 21 Such tosh regularly uttered when things go wrong (2-2) 22 His brain teems in comic awkwardness (6,4) 25 Duke misjudging occasion for bravado (7-2) 26 Area by skip is not in order (5) 27 Smash and grab tactic for sheep rustling? (3,4) 28 Stick with drink during final round (4,3) Down 1 African gets rid of husband, as he works on holiday (6) 2 They prepare good lodgings (6) 3 Tools of historical revisionists (10) 4 Poet makes NATO reverse negative environment (5) 5 Hear claim being treated as material (5,4) 6 Single text that yields many philosophies (4) 7 Whip supports fund for young queen (5,3) 8 Scored an ace? You must go on from this point (2-6) 13 Leaders are solid, surprisingly, about it (10) 15 Home force surrounded and broken (9) 16 Struggle to have fun with older anagram! (8) 17 Picture that paints a single word, perhaps (8) 19 Ongoing story of dosser I allowed inside (6) 20 Finishes after all in a dreadful state (4,2) 23 Head off constitutional attack on networks (5) 24 City whose fame is based on dodgy foundations (4)
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