CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
For today’s solutions, text CLUE followed by the clue (eg: ‘CLUE 1 Down’) to 53307
Across
1 Go after husband in lawsuit (5).
4 Quietly went in van, carrying bloomer, the worse for wear (9).
9 One snooping furtively is generating bitterness (9).
10 Pensioner without power but with some understanding of wood (5). 11 Graduates, and is returning with musicians of the lowest kind (5). 12 A Lancelot goes errant, without warning (3,2,4).
13 Unusual energy caught in early 19th Century style (7).
15 Heads bow to daughter with the French (7).
18 Accept unconditionally one doesn’t make a summer (7).
20 Endless agitation in genuine rejection of offer (7).
21 Poets tilt merrily at aerial specialist (4,5).
23 One to heavily criticise system of belief (5).
25 Stir up disagreement on way to fish (5).
26 Study thicker cooling apparatus (9).
27 Here is English and European recipient of a gift (9).
28 Some wrote ethically of means to get things done (5).
Down
1 Goes one better, keeping racehorse up yard with large rodents (9). 2 Makes a change, ignoring leader of house (5).
3 Online meeting proposal a liberal worked up (9).
4 Leadership in expensive degree (7).
5 One from the country swimming on Lagan (7).
6 Experiment abandoning youth leader in the middle — a swimmer (5). 7 Awakens again like nerds in confusion (9).
8 Slow learner gets cold in sandhill (5).
14 Good fellows with Irish rebel and English Premier (9).
16 I’d turn up very loudly with papers to
hospital department, lacking confidence (9).
17 Halts broadcast around planet for seaside environment (9). 19 Exploratory oil well not officially authorised (7).
20 Entourage with regret keep alien at home (7).
21 Compute turnover with ram (3.2).
22 Brief signal for beans, say. (5).
24 Thread length is left half away (5).