TELEGRAPH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 Survive within elite mostly getting source of credit (7) 5 Women must have complete authority (7)

9 Eventually, crash-test will expose material (5)

10 Outlaw lost speed – runs with difficulty (9)

11 Textiles requiring efforts to contain a bug (10)

12 Talk daily needing time for resistance (4)

14 Detective with feeling about pressure for immunity (12)

18 Sign on delivery for reference books (12)

21 Attack from journal mostly rejected (4)

22 Cleaner sort of witchcraft? (10) 25 Arrogant Independent politician – critical but not initially (9) 26 Whine about universal right for groom (5)

27 Happy without line, understands devices (7)

28 Defer and pay out after American flipped (7)

Down

1 Taste shown by veneer covering article (6)

2 Welcome statute stifling church power (6)

3 It permits a new mood in the group (4,6)

4 Arranged credit, mainly for drink (5)

5 One from Los Angeles perhaps seen in type of film genre regularly (9)

6 Swim in river with fish (4) 7 Drunk – and a rich web designer (8)

8 Going off after short time horse-riding? (8)

13 States accepted by worn-out horses having these on their backs (10)

15 Poor writer on novel losing head (9)

16 Liking to protect new decking (8)

17 Succeeded – then folded and made severe economies (8) 19 Run through new recipe (6) 20 Approved sort of ox put back in old herd every now and then (6)

23 Safe haven from love unchanged (5)

24 Lake Ireland viewed from the south? (4)