CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Engagement that produces misgiving (11)

9 Costs incurred as result of wear during transactions (9) 10 Body time, roughly (5) 11 Retaliation may be the solution (6)

12 Give graduate students this game (8)

13 Break away from predecessors in retreat (6)

15 Cause for social event (8) 18 Concealed exit from port road undergoing repairs (8) 19 Bill has drink and misbehaves (4,2)

21 A great amount of prayer that includes god (8) 23 Evidence of security for capital cover (6) 26 Model only new material (5) 27 Run down gradient exploding with energy (9) 28 Boil with anger before match, maybe, but understand (3,3,5)

DOWN

1 Tyres, perhaps with spokes (7) 2 Call for help, accepting footballers will get places to relax (5) 3 Ran into river and finished after repairs oddly ignored (4-5) 4 A glass container left open? (4) 5 Fashionable posture adopted, for example (8) 6 Celebrated school raised doubts initially (5) 7 Ireland’s heart lies in hot bread at Christmas (7) 8 Illegal acts of family in sabre-rattling? (5-3) 14 Bug female trapped in planned larceny (8) 16 Financial backer to support a run on church port (9) 17 Time for breakfast possibly (8)

18 Bit of a shock for the best granny, say (7) 20 Sharp chap follows play on words (7) 22 Suggestions of strikes about direction (5) 24 Made a call after parking accident (5) 25 Symbol of life bank holiday reveals (4)