25TH_CROSS_SOL

Solution to puzzle 11583

December 29, 2015 05:34 pm | Updated 05:34 pm IST

Across

1 Prospective groom’s fund missing new source (6)

4 One replaces a knife with shovel (6)

9 Forbid extract of clove tobacco (4)

10 Receptionists fasten returning officials? (4,6)

11 Repents decapitating herons (6)

12 Lampoon social evil’s advance (8)

13 This might be a revealing form of entertainment (5,4)

15 Run away with returning European to last refuge (5)

16 Right to behead trainer of insect (5)

18 Trickster to burn South African province retreat (9)

22 Let slip that artist protects first lady of the French democratic leader (8)

23 Fruit for father? Yes! (6)

25 Monarchs of the Soviet get rid of Income Tax rules (10)

26 Cut, sent back rolls (4)

27 Somehow athletes lose a final game in Jewish village (6)

28 Attempts to answer, starting off with compositions (6)

Down

1 Fear grips last one in carriage (7)

2 Abode made from brick (5)

3 Dead bodies right amongst the bushes (7)

5 Prompt company to be semi-polite (6)

6 Irregular to change sides in irregular confusion (9)

7 Discovers empty artwork in torn purse (5,2)

8 Gets good ethos somehow but becomes ruined (4,2,3,4)

14 Changing sides during expansion is nasty (9)

17 Difficult for one to curtail anger (7)

19 Rests, consumes father’s meals (7)

20 Shelters a Yankee leader in run-down neighbourhoods (7)

21 Wealthy, lose a fortune initially, become liquid (6)

24 Father has confused Turkish military leader (5)

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