
ACROSS 8 Five digits recited in the nursery – or in the farmyard perhaps?
(4,6,5) 9 Sing high notes? (5) 10 Showing improvements in research? (7,2) 11,
26 The kind of attack needed to take 10 wickets? (3,3) 12 Bite off toffee topping in eastern
state (5) 13 Old news in a short moment – couldn't care less! (9) 16 What 8 may have
had roasted in oven mark 10 instead of 5 (4) 17 See 25 19 Half a pair of trousers
for Miss Brodie perhaps? (4) 22 Rogue state divided by extract in café (9) 25, 17
Get at Oscar? Unlikely, in his profession (5,5) 26 See 11 27 Advertisements describing
8's business? (9) 28 Pigment used in brooch repairs (5) 29 Activist elephant or donkey
in America? (9,6)
DOWN 1 Unenterprising type, 8? (4-2-4) 2 An Oscar to best
(around the East) supporting animal (10) 3 Letter singer, 10, is to howl at (7) 4 When
10, she gets fitted into ballet shoes (6) 5 Artist taking poor doodle round to place of easy money
(8) 6 Honest but conceited person lying in processed milk (7) 7 Animal has swelling
in a main artery (6) 14 8's garden path perhaps? (3,3,4) 15 Allergic 10 when midnight's
gone – end disastrously in theatre at Christmas (10) 18 Persuade to study Van Gogh informally perhaps
(8) 20 Pardon me – an awfully filthy place! (7) 21 Surprise a model in firm (7) 23
Tail implant suffered internally (6) 24 Get log out switch on computer (6)
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