CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8. Union in a cell, a medley (8) 9. Get back in the shower, for instance (6) 10. Get one used to about a hundred different calamities (11) 11. It was likely to be a train for the future (3) 13. Bird starting flight to island (5) 15. He sees what one’s saying (3-6) 17. Fact of being beyond question put in idly as bit I worked on (15) 19. A wild ruffian who has to adjust road-speed (9) 21. ‘There let the pealing __ blow’ (Milton) (5) 23. Sash one put on former schoolfellow (3) 24. Daily closely questioned as to how food was cooked (11) 27. Pony that half crushes its victims somehow (6) 28. I’ve a tact to use in order to make it work (8)

DOWN

1. Choose one on the poll (8) 2. Sort of pickle that made lad finally sick (4) 3. Soul of a creature without a tail (5) 4. Limited, as are various places the public can’t go (10,5) 5. Peers around the child’s bed to write it up for drugs (9) 6. As grey eventually starts, so will one grow old (3) 7. An easy, single-constituent remedy (6) 12. Cutter got for a snip (6) 14. He may be an aggressively defiant carpenter (6) 16. Understand how to arrest somebody (9) 18. Attempt to hold an undershirt in burlesque (8) 20. It will grow by more cell division (6) 22. The way one will shred it must sound harsh (5) 25. On the hoof as wickedness shows up (4) 26. Haggard, if novel, heroine (3)