Solution to puzzle 10706
Across
1One carat in five might be bogus (7)
5Poor Charlie ate twice the salt (7)
9A choice before teacher to return to the root (5)
10Helps with neat assembly of animals (9)
11May be earth work inside makes one go for a quick union (9)
12Builder recalled in Osama’s den (5)
13Throws water over some food (4)
15Drainage gets these animals up in anger (8)
18On an animal one rides out, as it rusts (8)
19Oddly laid net material (4)
22Tenor in the band store (5)
24Bid to keep thousands on the run (5,4)
26Wages for shedding some light in book review (9)
27Mark leading in the first half (5)
28Dispatched, having played game without a piece (7)
29Carried out without interest by the old lady (7)
Down
1& 20 dn 14 created wealth kept in cold storage (6,6)
2An element of burden involved in curbing pollution (6,3)
3Paper has no time for the matter (5)
4Seles managed to get even with a break (9)
5See 7 dn
6Record by Border could be real or transitory (9)
75 dn & 17 dn Alternate gunmen sent as replacement for 14’s work (5,5,9)
8Reducing fifty while renting (6)
14Do we by arrangement shelter a writer? (9)
16Justified action having spoken in anger (9)
17See 7 dn
20See 1 dn
21Devil drink will kill (6)
23A girl gets a day in the middle (5)
24Wind carrying oriental visitor (5)
25Condemn if there is no booze around parts of London (5)
