TELEGRAPH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 Inferred what Tom Daley did, perhaps, captivates the Queen (7) 5 Page to be first, editor begged (7) 9 A wife almost generous? Rubbish! (5)

10 Every second a flyer goes in behind schedule (9)

11 Arranging musical instrument, one with whistle (10)

12 Friends hit back (4)

14 Exotic Persia trip? No sweat (12) 18 Despite everything, even shelter’s damaged (12)

21 Couples softly dropped voices (4) 22 I count on us working uninterrupted (10)

25 I note a duck is in container for quarantine (9)

26 Keen to ignore tail, holding large bird (5)

27 Requiring massaging, by the sound of it (7)

28 Questionable American power in religious community (7)

Down

1 Churchman of French origin in Alcatraz with prisoner (6)

2 Match official bungle oddly ignored safety (6)

3 Offers kinky nurse love? About time! (10)

4 Kent town’s bargains (5)

5 Plant I vote to be uprooted?

Not very likely (9)

6 Rake in bottom of garden under part of cereal plant (4)

7 Small drink of alcohol and a jerk gets theatrical (8)

8 Maybe relish putting on clothes (8) 13 Goes around North with German travellers (10)

15 Rugby perhaps popular with good training (9)

16 Attack that crosses a line? (8)

17 All evening Ray loses heart with me (8) 19 ‘Poking it out’ could be considered rude language (6)

20 Snake starts to emerge, checking the air (6)

23 Rendered notes? (5)

24 Extract from Rimbaud a little surrealist (4)