Mungo MacCallum’s Cryptic

ACROSS

1. Told to purchase a ticket for the road around the town (6) 4. Cattle vehicle – but it’s used for racing! (5,3)

9. Actors not working – dismiss (4,3)

11. Eastwards, a line over the seabird – forever! (7)

12. Woman, a rotter – but she gets around! (5)

13. Silly fellow was lost for words – and hung out in the open to stop being so wet! (4-5)

14. Rule Twiggy the miner, they say – for the tropical flora! (10) 16. Odd. Soft arse (4)

19. Watch daughter germinate! (4) 20. Corpse with weapons made an illegal tackle (5-5)

22. The sound of Davis’s trumpet – an important sign of progress! (9)

23. Unpleasant type with an order for a sinful city (5)

25. Crazy about the small island? Get it wrong! (7)

26. Shiny wrapping can frustrate (7)

27. Princess’s performances – spectacles! (8)

28. Stigma around large dictator (6)

DOWN

1. “Smash poets,” orders Spooner, demanding a reversal of the course (9)

2. Col East, no longer popular (5) 3. Store elevator is a crime (8) 5. The winner, very fast, arrived in 1788 (3,5,5)

6. Cold, rushes for belief systems (6)

7. Trick can add two turns to male universe (9)

8. Gained power, but repented over the line (5)

10. 1901 celebration died any rate of disorder (10,3)

15. Concept leans to Utopians (9) 17. Said to be Irish fruit wallaby? (9)

18. Cradle fish in trap (8)

21. Also a toff (2,4)

22. 1999 – Journalist acted without words (5)

24. Daughter with a bun – amusing (5)