CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Two alcoholic drinks before my game (3,5) 5 All Blacks initially sit around filled with anger (6) 10 Father had potato cooked just like that (2,3,4,2,1,3) 11 Without doubt, leader of competition left in good time (7) 12 To thump counter is out of order (7) 13 State of uproar in duma, so he agitated (8) 15 Sound of hooter I installed (5) 18 Wedges demonstrated by male champion golfer (5) 20 Break down or break up? (8) 23 In university in part of London (7) 25 Clown and I make a mistake filling container (7) 26 Options for gin drinker or thief? Please yourself (4,2,2,5,2) 27 Throw out Yankee dignitary (6) 28 A pass splitting the French in game (8)

DOWN

1 Briefly scan glossy in which knight appears (6) 2 Famous cathedral in Rome Dante misrepresented … (5,4) 3 … excavate in chateau near there (7) 4 Join quite contrary girl across river (5) 6 Expert has nothing on clown (7) 7 Very pale female wearing a number (5) 8 Nervously meet seed, highly regarded (8) 9 Don’t see such a lot shining (8) 14 Weaker party, a French boxer perhaps holding the German (8) 16 Fashionable French writer’s introduction to small northern city (9) 17 The cows, roaming round quiet Welsh town (8) 19 Looking after number one son, doctor flies to reach hospital (7) 21 Outdoor work – rain affected having dogged energy (4-3) 22 Artwork of Nehru finally acquired by nation (6) 24 Game fighter’s end following jab (5) 25 Steps king’s installed in a dock to get up (5)