CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 District hospital to the east of capital (6) 5 Primate could give bishop a blessing (6) 10 Range fashionable once more (5) 11 Brute, Scotsman, perhaps behind bars (9) 12 Doctor’s client, long-suffering (7) 13 What may help some sporty types to get up? (3,4) 14 Sailor about to collect special gunpowder ingredient (9) 17 Outbreak of fighting heading for cup tie (5) 18 What shapes beard worn by preacher, a Zoroastrian (5) 19 Deteriorate? Manage to consult foremost of doctors (3,2,4) 21 Caught a programme about Conservative’s dependable way to boost the coffers (4,3) 23 Spend long period of time crossing (7) 25 Refusing to bend, old boy, say, has to be carried around home (9) 26 Hunter in oratorio, Nimrod (5) 27 A stink, ultimately, after article taken from another jacket (6) 28 Cruel person, notice, is skulking in street (6) DOWN 2 A component in pieces (5) 3 Secret involving house and publican (9) 4 Hard, somewhat, in outward appearance (5) 5 He conducted in Swiss capital, good man, a German (9) 6 Sounds like one who has a lighter spicy starter (5) 7 Start to make a speech having swallowed one drink (9) 8 French writer keeping quiet for academic grounds? (6) 9 Grab lift (6) 15 Idle girl makes a stand (4,5) 16 Perplex with support for reversion to an earlier type (9) 17 Angry over promise to provide this (9) 18 Page on Rex, academy’s headmaster? (6) 20 Governess expected girl to be upset (6) 22 One who proclaims about state and Queen (5) 23 Quick to forget former partner in a novel manufacturing business? (5) 24 A young lady that’s out of order (5)