Cryptic Crossword [6]

by Siddiq Islam

Editor’s note: The solutions to this puzzle are available here.

Across

1 Rest on back wheel (6)

4 Beginner with no pen eraser (6)

9 Era of mindless rage (3)

10 Last of cacti in Sahara ill (5)

11 To hang but with no initial laughing allowed (3)

12 Hilly Tour d’England royalty (5)

14 Try heal, broken ground, love you (7)

16 Into annoying homogenising (11)

20 Music made by humans is among noblest of art in Greece (7)

22 Angry nearly hits testes (5)

23 Need remove dick for birth term (3)

25 Metal almost leaves that colourful (5)

26 Everything finds itself in fallacious allegations (3)

27 Surprising that the sea is in the boats (6)

28 Said to be rat in mixed school without head (6)

Down

1 Food at Xmas formals insults me (6)

2 Article about opening of theatres (3)

3 Judge consult with ease (7)

5 Public relations regarding alcohol and lighter (5)

6 Mouthless goblin turns into nothing (3)

7 Says races equal (6)

8 Question the inland fence (11)

13 Diana without arrow heads wants place to eat (5)

15 Gives ten fingers (5)

17 Tut! Liar misguided by name, not virtue (7)

18 Crazy: ion’ fly but I wish I did (2,4)

19 I cover’d thine vision, I led ye astray (6)

21 Savage Putin criticism (5)

24 Among cygnet, chick, duckling, and others (3)

26 Play scene (3)

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