There is help if you can spot some puns
appropriate to this
website.
ACROSS
1 Navy base guards
put caps on the ground (5)
4 Female
graduate welcoming royal guide (8)
9 No
contract? One may be double crossed (9,6)
10
Study women in boozer (4)
11
Surprise for Newark's odd characters
(5)
12 Explorer runs over ship
(4)
15 Made airy sound with opening of
hair drier, possibly (7)
16 Nag about
round grains (7)
17 Female is opening
right hand for white wine (7)
19
West-South – short journey for experts
(7)
20 "This is painful" a guide said
(4)
21 Returned golf club bag not a thing
to hold on to (5)
22 Entrance to Savile
Row tower (4)
26 PM wrong about veteran
left in Italian team (6,9)
27 Bumped into
author, Greek character returning every year
(3,5)
28 Friend, strange one, initially
kept back (5)
DOWN
1 Praise the
land and the country's uprising (5)
2 Shot
former lover is chap cruelly rejected, say (9,6)
3
Lane in the heart of Kent (4)
4
Damaged spade moved, one not needed (7)
5
Bull seen in English trees (7)
6
Cast finds hotel address online (4)
7 Thus
model aircraft may be damaged, a cord on it twisted
(5-10)
8 The man left to invest one's
capital (8)
13 Reason for home support?
(5)
14 Nameless partner sent to the chair
(5)
15 Hostile moods, what PA's worried
about right? (8)
18 I'm saintly, my halo
sort of new (4,3)
19 It records musical
instruments, primarily with digital sound
(7)
23 Instruction to take on the same
piece of music (5)
24 Medieval balladeer's
song (4)
25 No head for prostitute's
customer, which is a pain in the neck
(4)
