CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Disturbance in medical lecture (7)

5 Look at what’s on envelope (7)

9 Start removing lid (7)

10 Women bent on heavenly body being seen afresh (3,4)

11 9 Across character on strike (9)

12 Motionless to this day (5) 13 Exhausted – as is American car? (5)

15 Subject matter to cover in huge area (9)

17 Person buying drink welcomed by ship’s finance officer (9)

19 Nation probing Afghan affairs (5)

22 Somewhat obsolete, went out (5)

23 Produce notes, pocketing cool money in Austria once (9)

25 Take off one, then divide other half by it (7)

26 Resting across raised switches, bolt finally secured (7)

27 Bloke protecting appendage that’s worn (7)

28 Feverish, so slept with pyjama bottoms only? (7)

DOWN

1 Little tear perhaps left in tatty red top (7)

2 Listened to cat, shark? (7)

3 A plane is out of the way (5)

4 Much money mother hoards say, somewhere north of Greater London (9)

5 Appropriate queen given kiss (5)

6 Movement on course, swallows fly (9)

7 Stodge at the bottom, reason for stirring (7)

8 Vest in record time! (7) 14 After downpour initially, day three surprisingly dry (9)

16 Point assimilated by shaman or the astrologer (5-4)

17 Page including surplus material (7)

18 Sailor upset with bank gets more irritable (7)

20 Stupid, in gatecrashing a function (7)

21 Compound is large in African capital (7)

23 Perfume delivered, it’s said (5)

24 Lease at an end – relief! (3-2)