CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Celebrates dancing round piano, upright (11)

10 Coffee or tea, we hear, inside old container (5)

11 Report of frozen deluge creating vision problem (9)

12 Correct current slang for ‘beggar’(9)

13 Epic poem is long. It’s also dull, initially (5)

14 United trained to take on Newcastle finally … (6)

16 … Bury facing new wingers from Arsenal inside (8)

18 Excess praise one’s Queen rejected (8)

20 Consent from top admitting Church doctrine’s first (6) 23 Suitor with reaction to innuendo (5)

24 Handy gear for relocating plant (9)

26 Improve conditions spreading deeper love endlessly (9)

27 East River capsized craft (5) 28 Kill like elite force with crime destroyed (11)

DOWN

2 Scoffed feta at beano,

regularly (5)

3 Force to accept this compiler twisting proposition (7) 4 Emperor about right

to hold tide back (6) 5 Warning of drink round

around time (8)

6 Row about dodgy art

for gents, perhaps (7) 7 Weapons and helmets

for war at sea (5-8) 8 Light playing in

arcade (8) 9 Pure, natural duet moving

journalist (13)

15 Bolts sailors do on

empty decks (8)

17 A small room turned up around lobby – heaven! (8)

19 Drops containing skin of elder extracts (7)

21 Punish Conservative

over race (7)

22 Experts of French exercise a

school head embraces (6) 25 Maudling ran Treasury

accepting gift (5)