âACROSS&DOWNrKÄ3è3eXp1.2.XXXXXX.XXXXX....X.X.X.X.X.X.XXXXXXXXXX.XXXXXX.X.X.X.X.X.X.XXXXXXXXX.XXXXXXX.X...X...X.X.XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX...X.XXX.X...XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX.X.X...X...X.XXXXXXX.XXXXXXXXX.X.X.X.X.X.X.XXXXXX.XXXXXXXXXX.X.X.X.X.X.X....XXXXX.XXXXXX..------.-----....-.-.-.-.-.-.----------.------.-.-.-.-.-.-.---------.-------.-...-...-.-.--------.--------...-.---.-...--------.--------.-.-...-...-.-------.---------.-.-.-.-.-.-.------.----------.-.-.-.-.-.-....-----.------.Team Cryptic Crossword Competition Puzzle #5 Bernie Morris (UK), Craig Fothergill (UK), C. G. Rishikesh (India) © 2000 The Crypteasers (Solutions in Notepad)After one month, worker gets measuring instrument (6)Dock the dog -- repeat dog (7)Take advantage of a cover, we hear (5)Work party starts to ask for religion (4-5)Right in the midst of most turbulent bay (5)Squad leader has elastic band (4)Laptop for mastermind? (9)Muslim hermit forsakes middle-eastern bird (7)Gathering string in the factory? (8,4)Charcoal asses, losing dubious halo - just old bones (9)Drying 2 cars intermittently, having business I.D. (4-8)Rotten start in messy digs restricts (5)True existence of daft Lear muddling file (4,4)Not fit, worried, blue and without a dime (6)Dog has right to bay (7)Badly received Gentile lot, confused out east (3-6)Upset Sid and Burt terribly (7)Spot yacht's prow at bay (9)Chip gently off old block (3)Drive back to the bay? (7)Shape of befuddled loopy News Group (7)Rush past youth leader in the bay (7)Draw by lot? (7)Lemon scruffy welly with hole in (6)Sweets to infect badly (8)Slyly, Miss Muffet takes cheese (5)Hideous gluey mess when wiping end of table (4)Time cavalier is heard (5)Angered at the unleashing of dog (5,4)Overprotective towards grandmother? (5)In a ferment, crazy Yeats starts yelling (6)ACROSS 1 OCTANT (abbr. of OCT + ANT) 5 STORM (Bay) (R in jumbled MOST) 9 CARCASSES ('dubious halo' = dropped letters from 'charcoal asses') 10 GIRDS (R in jumbled DIGS) 11 REAL LIFE (anag. of 'Lear' and 'file') 12 UNABLE (jumbled 'blue and' -D) 13 COLLIER (Bay) 'Collie' + R 15 DISTURB (SID backward, BURT jumble.) 16 CHI (CHIP - P) 17 REPULSE (Bay) (double def.) 19 STREAKY (Bay) (STREAK + Y) 21 YELLOW (jumbled WELLY including O) 22 CONFETTI (anag.) 25 NIGHT (homonym) 26 GREAT DANE (anag.) 27 NANNY (double def.) 28 YEASTY (jumbled YEATS + Y) DOWN 2 CURTAIL (CUR (dog) + TAIL (dog) 3 AVAIL (homonym) 4 TASK-FORCE ('starts to' = T. 'ask for' is en clair. CE = 'religion') 5 SASH ('Squad leader = S. 'elastic' = jumbled HAS) 6 ORGANISER (double def.) 7 MARABOU ('Marabout' - T) 8 ASSEMBLY LINE (Association clue) 9 CARD-CARRYING (anag.) 14 ILL-GOTTEN (jumbled GENTILE LOT - E) 15 DISCOVERY (Bay) (DISCOVER + Y) 18 POLYGON (anag.) 20 ATTRACT ('by' = AT. 'lot' = TRACT) 23 FETTA (