CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Decorate popular curry place to get new look? (8,4) 9 Sandown empty and a Grand National winner that gets beaten! (5,4) 10 Pace of study after tea being delivered (5) 11 Changes the last word — ‘dust’, oddly (6) 12 Relation may garage freezing cold vehicle for one (8) 13 Canopy of trees disturbed by what, ultimately? (6) 15 Plant a representative in county (8) 18 Fools rest, covered in burns (8) 19 Starting late, imagine tricky puzzle (6) 21 Determination shown by ‘X’, a population centre (8) 23 Unpleasant experience of gold trade (6) 26 Coffee - the second of two unfinished (5) 27 One plying craft made of log going after fish (9) 28 Factor in school session with European journal (12)

DOWN

1 Melody making cast end in chaos? (7) 2 Offer a service collecting excise (5) 3 Plant rush successfully (9) 4 A right to be in US city? Never! (4) 5 Capital Italian island with a new following from another country? (8) 6 Cop worried about note one found behind bars (5) 7 Attractive engraving with female head (8) 8 Stick diamonds in a present! (6) 14 Stand still, seeing a gun unloaded in Texas, perhaps (8) 16 Corral beast grabbing Republican correspondent (3,6) 17 This might hold lace worked under canvas structure (8) 18 Farm stock let out by lion? (6) 20 Cause of reaction that’s largely violent (7) 22 How one might come for confession? (5) 24 Surplus old paintings put up (5) 25 Earliest form of human transport? (4)