The Diamond

9×9×9 · 39 entries

Grids — one sheet per Z layer

Z 1

1
234
5

Z 2

Z 3

6
78
910
1112
13

Z 4

Z 5

141516
1718
19
20
21

Z 6

Z 7

22
2324
25
26

Z 8

Z 9

27
28

A square marked also carries a letter of a Through answer running through the sheets.

Clues

Across

2Exercise with a boring tool (5)
7Buys, or the places one does it (5)
9Private, in the plural — the small ads (9)
11Cheese full of holes, or a roll (5)
14Fruit, or appointments (5)
17A crow's company, plus two who hesitate, are the killers (9)
19Mix at a party, American style (9)
20A reviewer's doctrine amounts to fault-finding (9)
21Famous, and wrote down (5)
23Nothing to be proud of, in Welsh amenities (5)
25What one can do, sorting out "a bit I lies" (9)
26A shade after Sunday — and a spell of work (5)
28Tasting of spirits, or Virginia for short (5)

Down

1Bishop walks with difficulty, up in the air (5)
6Cosmic one, oddly, turns out to be the dismal science (9)
7Kinds, and arranges (5)
8Cleaners, or the daytime dramas (5)
14Straightforward charged particle points the way (9)
15Trip haste, badly — and you need someone to talk to (9)
16Stated exactly: a spec, if I say so, edited (9)
17You have to face it when it stops (5)
18Teams rearranged, and let off (5)
22Easier lit, rearranged into the hard facts (9)
23What a head does when it spins (5)
24Civet let out, and turned out (5)
27Information about a kind (5)

Through

1Thrown away, it comes back (9)
2Guiding, and what the film-maker does (9)
3A lion is to be rearranged, and left alone (9)
4A drawback, and what the insurer covers (9)
5Basic: prim, I've it, all mixed up (9)
6Go in, or the key that says so (5)
7Roses rearranged into wounds (5)
8A view, by the sound of it, observed (5)
9A while ago, with one — and Italian food (5)
10Pests rearranged into stairs (5)
11Outfits, or what the cards come in (5)
12Stain shifted, and one becomes holy (5)
13Places for building, sounding like the views (5)