Upright working Prince, pure lad

I don’t usually print our morning crossword solutions here,  though occasionally elsewhere. Today, though, 1 Across could be of general interest, the clue not the anagrammatic solution.

There’s a site which explains the clues and offers answers Monday to Friday after 11am, Greenwich Mean Time. But while you’re here you might like a few explanations of the answers.

9 across Dicky Bird was a famous cricket umpire .Dicky-bird is also rhyming slang for “word”, especially in the phrase “not a dicky-bird” as a response to “have you heard from …?

1 down Paddington is a station in London. Paddington Bear is a cartoon character who weears a duffel coat.

28 across Heath Robinson


14 down Botticelli, anagram of “rabid collie bit” + t for “time”

He was a Renaissance painter most famous for his Birth of Venus

 

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