Preamble: Ten answers are connected and
their clues are partial, i.e. they have only subsidiary
indications.
ACROSS
1 History test (8)
5 An honest person,
one abandons endlessly scheming crook (6)
10 Put gas into
aged car finally, having arranged date (7)
11 Her fan
violently set about fellow (7)
12 Somewhat mournful
narration relating to bone (5)
13 Chap in class falling
short (9)
14 Repeated evaluation of new employees
principally means stress (12)
18 Runs into kinky form of
intercourse (12)
23 College girl’s current visit cut short
(9)
25 Spanish hero’s final letter to bespectacled bishop?
(5)
26 I moderate, with soldier about to go ape (7)
27
One getting married, ditching wife after ring is exchanged
(7)
28 Received greeting card first of all (6)
29 Internet enables
popular female to meet husband in Scottish town
(8)
DOWN
1 Fit to succeed priest (6)
2 Price is
accepted by Carol (6)
3 Coats etc are wet – our
problem (9)
4 Magistrates in South Africa suppress uprising
(7)
6 Mischievous fellow plunged into river after returning
(5)
7 They guard special records (8)
8 Shaping
generations future and present with timeless song (8)
9
Complain peevishly, securing little good? (6)
15 Do Franz
Schubert’s first works love this scoring technique? (9)
16
Terrific solving! (8)
17 Avoiding reality show’s foremost
aspect I develop (8)
19 Artist, one who gets topless
(6)
20 Prohibition of story by fundamentalist rulers
(7)
21 Woman gets round in (6)
22 Student working with
teacher (6)
24
Was Dizzy Gillespie’s second teacher
(5)
