¦ACROSS&DOWNrHØ3N3XH1.2.STUDIO.TACIT....A.W.N.I.R.A.SSEGMENTED.UMBREC.A.L.H.E.S.U.CAGLITTER.PHYLLOR.O...M...A.A.NLEGIBLE.RUBYREDE...Y.NEE.L...TTALONED.TREMOLOW.E.O...R...P.NONTIME.SOMBREROM.D.E.T.U.A.R.NAROMA.INSINUATEN.W.N.N.S.G.N....NOSEY.ERSATZ..------.-----....-.-.-.-.-.-.----------.------.-.-.-.-.-.-.---------.-------.-...-...-.-.--------.--------...-.---.-...--------.--------.-.-...-...-.-------.---------.-.-.-.-.-.-.------.----------.-.-.-.-.-.-....-----.------.TCCCC#5 Puzzle #7 Gail Koontz (US), Craig Kasper (US), John Bryan (US), Will Johnston (US) © 2000 (Explanations in Notepad)Sexy man I love in artist's hangout (6)Filipino's persistent follower no neutral (7)Lived down low in damp (5)At last eating, I'm finally getting better (2,3,4)Understood I engaged in diplomacy (5)Season of change coming up (4)Flimsy cord around basket material (9)A brutal arrangement in rows and columns (7)Scone not done; cooked it's tiptop (6,2,4)Ten gems Ed sorted and divided (9)Tart's rate about right: two thousand a night up front (7,5)Brown parasol not all retracted (5)Refuse to follow silver twinkling (8)Holly sick after piece of putrid pastry (6)Plain and simple giblet stuffing (7)Certainly not breaking many bones (2,2,5)By garment's third wearing, regretted bright colour (4,3)Recreating the past, USS Enterprise finally turned up (9)Odds of niece being born (3)Brutal one destroyed clutches with hooked claws (7)Disappointment for French village around 1st of December (7)Quiver made from wild elm root (7)Poe's meandering bombast is effective (7)Give out number in reverse when expected (2,4)Brother wearing some real old hat in Mexico (8)Explosions!!! (5)Small uprising after disappearance of Greek letter (4)Returned senorita's love with a bouquet (5)Suggest out loud you dined wickedly (9)Snoopy, no? Yes, in retrospect (5)Phony tears confused chief of Zulus (6)SOLUTION NOTES Across 1. STUD+I+O 5. TAC(I)T 9. SEGMENTED anag. 10. UMBRElla 11. AG+LITTER 12. P+HYLLO(anag.) 13. LEGIBLE hidden 15. RU(BY+R)ED 16. NiEcE 17. TALONED hidden 19. TREMOLO anag. 21. ON TIME ('emit+no' rev.) 22. SOM(BR)E+R+O 25. A+ROMA ('amor+a' rev.) 26. INSINUATE ('in sin you ate' hom.) 27. NO+SEY ('yes' rev.) 28. ERSAT(anag.)+Z Down 2. TAGALOnG 3. D+WE(L)T 4. ON THE (M)END 5. TIDE ('edit' rev.) 6. C(RUSH)ABLE 7. TABULAR anag. 8. SECOND TO NONE anag. 9. SCA(R)LE+T WO+M+A+N 14. BY NO MEANS anag. 15. RETRO+USS+E 18. LE+T(D)OWN 20. OPE(anag.)+RANT 23. BANGS 2 def. (! = bang) 24. muTINY