El Presidente's consistency in providing crosswords for FSG members continues to astound. What a first-rate chap he is in helping the Editor fill the Newsletter! This crossword has a different matrix and, judging by the clues, a slightly different 'flavour' (indeed, many flavours…..).
1 Fraud tails the sweet (anag) (5,5) 2 The French think this sweet is doubly good (6) 3 The last Stewart monarch (4) 4 Piece containing a rib (8) 5 Part of a cock game-bird not eaten (4) 6 Root vegetable. From Scandinavia? (5) 8 Needing more mastication! (7) 12 Slow the music down (5) 14 Stimulating bakery? (6,4) 16 Put R in a peal to get a nutty sweet (anag) (7) 17 Speed of cricket or too high an opinion? (8) 21 Pastry filled with cream (6) 22 An organic poison (5) 24 Sport or food? (4) 25 Killer whale (4)
6 A good quality cut of beef (7) 7 A savoury jelly made with meat (5) 9 Half a clue! (4) 10 Grubber fee. In a bap? (anag) (10) 11 Score plan. For oneself? (anag) (8) 13 Where offal ends up in Scotland (6) 15 German car (4) 17 Admit to error (3,2) 18 A person who is obsessively interested (4) 19 A joint of meat or a col or a seat (6) 20 Let me toe the egg dish (anag) (8) 23 Grill ref on a subject of bread (anag) (6,4) 26 Steersman's apple? (4) 27 Ant, wandering around the South-West (5) 28 Cowardly bird? (7)
ANSWER TO THE CROSSWORD IN THE LAST NEWSLETTER (126)