CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Is mum’s seafood chowder out of the ordinary? (5,2) 5 Mean goblin bashed elf’s head (7)

9 Arab megalomaniac’s not all there (5)

10 Large antelope chasing bat over plateau (9) 11 Thoroughly chaotic in Lidl, get close to apoplexy (10) 12 Hammer-wielder having appropriated gold from writer (4) 14 Cracking any video game in first excursion (6,6) 18 Camouflaged creatures stay in groups (5,7)

21 Have confidence, dance with energy (4) 22 Information terminal in store, share age (10) 25 Rogue ignores an argument (9) 26 Month back, peeled oval fruit (5)

27 Discredit knight following mass in church (7) 28 Soldiers, exhausted, went to bed (7) DOWN

1 Grey hollow chimney muffles roaring (6)

2 Top moral tale potentially fruitful for one growing (6) 3 Chuck rugby player’s footwear (10)

4 Misled don (3,2) 5 Unevenness of one motorway leads to blooming awful puncture (9)

6 Occasion in legend regularly overlooked (4) 7 Repaired chair ably, short of arm (8) 8 Approved retailers getting rid of five European diamonds (8) 13 Leaders in government office organised reform (2,8)

15 One unwelcome in bed, periodically displaying clock (9) 16 Chips are all over the place, but not totally global (8)

17 Lose timid people outside climbing mountains (8) 19 Welshman in Russian space station, far above ground (6) 20 Advanced hospital staff can be found here (6)

23 Keen flier, not student, right? (5)

24 Lark rising in the afternoon over river (4)