CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Big shot from North, with a shilling (5)

4 Giant: is he insect? (8) 9 Memorable day taken in by tenant to a subtenant? (3-6) 10 German car wheel’s sound (5) 11 Left holding cent, thrilled (7) 12 Part of thunder god’s experience (7)

13 Marine giant accepting cheers on a large scale (9) 15 Edited prose lines (5) 17 Nothing the way it appears in stereotypical mirage (5) 19 Agreeable conga-line dancing (9)

21 Apply pine tar haphazardly (7) 23 Stick around London’s earliest fair (7)

25 Spots where lines connect Neruda’s original poems (5) 26 Like a giant latte Anna ordered anew (9)

27 Great big job with clowning (8) 28 Cowpoke’s means of catching young lady love (5)

DOWN

1 Pluck some finer velvet (5) 2 Hurt so bad about $100 notice of debt outstanding (9) 3 Inspire first pair of relays in swim (7)

4 Club Edward held? (5) 5 Formidable, the woman scrubbed around University (9)

6 Healer adopting a stray (7) 7 Royal English family’s kind of compact car, you might say? (5) 8 Huge deficit in fossil fuel (8) 13 Great, with jumping (8) 14 Daniel wearing a perfume on the rise (9)

16 Very valuable diamonds left in iron (9)

18 Welsh port as new as Mobile? (7)

20 Net Earl tangled without end (7)

22 Sun god with 502 arm bones (5) 23 Problem for the young company with suspended licence? (5)

24 Like some beach bums, leave dance (5)