M has the same meaning throughout.
ACROSS
9 M, feature of one such, sort of third
umpire (7)
10 M to plant a
German on island (7)
11 Fellow with a pupil, boy with Manx duck? (5)
12 M for tea
around first of year (5,4)
13 Student is
back with exceedingly
argentine M (6,1)
14 M for big biblical beast dropping
aitch (3,4)
16 M for not even as much as nine days? (9,2,4)
19 M drunk but
not deep ..... (7)
21 ..... as this M, making one err with kind
inclination (7)
23 M doubtful of
finding crane unit (9)
26,1 M for old
English ghosts? (5,6)
27 M sees Peggy involved with Rugby
Union (4,3)
28 Mean to say
how old one is? (7)
DOWN
1 see 26
2 Auster, the French king, is a crook (8)
3 Ground
maize, something to eat that’s worth eating?
(6,4)
4 Cure for measles beginning in piping (6)
5 Religious
leader’s contribution to the miraculous
(4)
6 M
or pigeon (4)
7 Funny fellow at dam with party (6)
8 Encrypted
by politically correct Henry I? (2,6)
14,17 Blow to Scotland about the old local rule (3-3)
15 Clarified report that ’e went out with
Lucy? (10)
16 Get it wrong: cooked juice was drunk by
insect (8)
17 see 14
18 M in love with a cask where he keeps his
ageless car? (3,5)
20 A Catholic
male’s maybe black M (6)
21 M in East
Lothian (3-3)
22 Make an
allusion about point to joint (6)
24 Incontinent bellringer? (4)
25 Ancient ship, part of Venetian
merchantman (4)
