CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,507

Across 1 Loving and loyal, but disenfranchised? (7) 5 Flower offered by son in bovine insolence (7) 9 Excessive returns by Home Counties creating argument (3-2) 10 Old and tired argument overturned before workers accept serving of tea (4-5) 11 What the cobbler did after spring, being flush (4-6) 12 Area for sitting limited by means of access (4) 14 Cover pan with a lid, mostly for this dish (6,6) 18 Go in quietly, getting up daring (12) 21 Nation working around higher degree qualification (4) 22 Belief man is so put out (10) 25 Big cat doctor on this is missing plane (5,4) 26 Lights perhaps out – school’s ending on the 2nd of March (5) 27 Supervision that leaves people in the dark? (3,4) 28 Beams, seeing post delivered in the outskirts of Ravenglass (7)

Down

1 Refuse to acknowledge racket pinching pig (6)

2 East European lifts and carries Italian organs (6)

3 Visitor bringing comfort to a child who’s down in the mouth (5,5)

4 Look for water trapped in window seals (5)

5 Spanish parliament may include check for warships (9)

6 Shed tears, seeing little parking (4)

7 Word for word heard along the coast (8)

8 Write sticker about military HQ (8)

13 Bar racket giving healthy measure of alcoholic strength? (10)

15 Repair broken set that’s set by the road (9)

16 Left during action, and despatched overseas (8)

17 In pen, tabloid girl with no heart is rambling (8)

19 Two females occupying country mansion? Nonsense! (6)

20 Ways of approaching old Germanic tribespeople (6)

23 Guide from America is standing on there without protection (5)

24 A run on first-class when promoted for a song (4)