CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Old girl, one getting on, missing

out (8)

9 Sequence of individual's

autobiography? (3,2,3) 10 Holiday location – mostly

`dance island'? (4)

11 Maidens out in winds where snow and ice may be evident? (12)

13 Shop with endless lines in

bowls? (8)

15 My covering had to be head

cloth (6)

16 Male animal with leg cut (4) 17 Where stone was taken from

food item (5)

18 Language of ranter sermonising

(4)

20 Line on map leader ignored travelling from place to place (2,4)

21 Leader of men is boss in funny

business? (8)

23 Requests for ointments? (12) 26 Facial expression of Greek character, last character in lineup? (4)

27 Home (No. 6) by river – they've

been asked along (8) 28 Guidance to find cheap

accommodation (8)

DOWN

2 Unusual teatimes having most

of one sort of food (8) 3 Sporting venue associated with

water polo possibly! (8-4) 4 Trendy, on end of street, a

Parisian flat? No! (2,4) 5 Nothing these days arrives on

time (4)

6 This person, bad, holding firm

up? Neither bad nor good (8) 7 Piano composer not the first or

last in a native group (4)

8 Go through with soldiers sitting

on `final' vehicle (8) 12 Something dramatic not

everyone will pick up (5,7) 14 Rage of street men prepared to

fight about nothing (5) 16 Occasional crop said to be

unreliable (8)

17 Note ascending space vehicle – there's a rotating mechanism (8)

19 Wholesale activity to remove

dirt? (8)

22 Silly jokes about parking in

capital city (6)

24 Put surface material on quiet

avenue (4)

25 Tails up maybe after this? (4)