CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Crucial – and Kitty has the last word, with story unfinished (11) 9 Tasteful number without a name? (9)

10 Some drinks and a single shot (5)

11 Brown backed first person in such a colony (6) 12 Weather when fish will take line and bite? (4,4)

13 Tried very hard to wander, by the way (6)

15 Neat sign designed for perennials (8)

18 Careless mistake with wearing shoes (8)

19 Praises army officers after cut back (6)

21 Fail to be moved, finding means of salvation (8) 23 Suffering at home, with company (6)

26 Finally docked to get a book of charts (5)

27 Suggests prisoners should swallow note (9)

28 Bar in Cricket Club records intellectual (6,5) DOWN

Shows off apartments housing a Parisian (7)

2 Detected rising attitudes one shows (5)

3 Tacky substances he’s found in adult nightclubs (9)

4 Warms up, removing top for food (4)

5 Idle as credit gone (4,4) 6 Tempted, but left university looking embarrassed (5) 7 Dictionary (American) incorporating one page for this complex character (7)

8 Go off with dog and escape (4,4) 14 Weather that sees artist in decline (8)

16 The sort of grouping that’s not expensive, with duty to replace European Commission (9) 17 Bad, if one turns out to be genuine (4,4)

18 Insult a naturopath, pinching eastern leader’s wife (7) 20 Greek island area with small pastries (7) 22 Fundamental degree (intentionally so) (5) 24 Opening bars – popular with half of troops (5) 25 Infection prominent during past years (4)