CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 In two seconds, moving as far as tree (9)

6 Tree guy going around park (5) 9 A record held by feline connected with a tree (7) 10 Brought down Italian leader embraced by communist (7) 11 Tree limb’s initial bend (5) 12 Jack in front of a vehicle and a tree (9)

13 Cast uses pens in Hitchcock film feature (8)

15 Spikes running into stones (6) 18 Mangle outside of a small tree (6)

19 Guided around top floor having an open structure (8) 22 Queen Elizabeth, in revenge, chopped up tree (9) 24 Ernest Hemingway, with tree (5) 25 Amid havoc, adorned tree (7) 26 Plastic cube holding essential tree (7)

27 Form way over a wall to the audience (5) 28 Haziness erodes doubts (9)

DOWN

1 Morbid, Lester moons at times (7) 2 Writers like Swift placed with Murdoch and Eliot (9) 3 Supreme Being in everything I see (5) 4 Interpret fair and square? (8)

5 Trim tree with cones (6) 6 Non-traditional sort teary about actress Laura (9) 7 Tree in Prince Edward Island, Canada (5) 8 Makes treasured last servings of corn (7) 14 Swampy tract’s Eastern border penetrated by boy (9) 16 Precious novel about 100 tenants (9) 17 Arrest in prison is for pot (8)

18 Sent car off for some Greeks (7) 20 500 proprietors’ bad experiences (7) 21 Improve note for mass (6) 23 Empty, thin tree (5) 24 Sort of horse roundup brought back (5)