THE BS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Having adequate grounds for converting a sexy club (9) 6 Measures seen anew at Tsar's palace ? (5) 9 Below par, having been the victim of a road accident (3,4) 10 Such incentives limit us, perhaps (7) 11 Be niggardly towards allotted task (5) 12 Be conscious of the sea's roughness, though one isn't sick (5,4) 13 Given a handout before getting pickled (9) 15 Vulture detailed apartment (5) 16 Keeps, in vases, bananas (5) 18 Free with one's money (3,6) 20 Soothing the standard selfesteem gives Richard no difficulty (9) 23 Condoms? China has seconds! (5) 25 They secure Scotsman’s return to the French Royal Society (7) 26 Artist takes sick during re-organised tour (7) 27 I picture Dan on a beach or in a ship (5) 28 Dissident about to join family set-up (9)

DOWN

1 Morgan and Virgil were the other two (5) 2 Scheme to get a pub erected in the bay (7) 3 They keep footwear and hose, possibly on a forest (4-5) 4 Where, in Scotland, they don't allow very loud music ? (5) 5 Agreed, better end overtime - it's in the past (9) 6 Cries when the law is broken (5) 7 Bully for your astrologer! (7) 8 The store is not yet full, it seems (5-4) 13 It puts one off, seeing that pest snoop like that! (9) 14 Proves air was dispersed by the spray (9) 15 May clause provide weapons to Spooner? (9) 17 Ivers on turns out for reading, say(7) 19 Pointed plants, perhaps ? That's what the head quarters decided ? (3,4) 21 Oddballs go right to Kansas (5) 22 Please go like a steam train! (5) 24 Sniff at a game without hesitation! (5)