CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Powdered fruit tablets, first couple taken last, swallowed by champion (8)

5 Roughly where mother picks up pup to get a snack (6)

10 Micronesian hero adaptable in any circumstances

(4,4,2,5)

11 Old Arab king behind time with American exhibitionist (7)

12 Cook crumble crust for holiday visitor to Oz

(7)

13 Keep gasping about the man's divine collection (8)

15 Trouble with old lady's inflexible views (5) 18 Subgroup of oligarchy enabling predator (5) 20 Satie mistakenly rounds on downbeat composer (8)

23 Pours dry type of wine over sink (7)

25 Dance recalled in church with similar origins (7)

26 Reports of shots (15) 27 Hill-dweller trapping deer pulled back chain (6)

28 Cases of pastry rise: nice automation from a range (8) DOWN 1 Author off the booze, hiding last three bits of it (6)

2 Light coverage of US city politicians duped earliest of electors (9) 3 Criminal charge overturned and conviction not completed? Sweet! (7) 4 Check for what kicks off uncivilised youth

(5)

6 Nancy's from big country to the north: I must leave with composure (7) 7 Crooked law's introduction fills in the act (5)

8 Celebrity turns introducing actual generic sort (8)

9 Distil studies into solid form with a point (8) 14 Labour a long time to dress one glam band up (8)

16 Note interpolated by Flaubert, maybe concerned with taste (9)

17 Pace restlessly, crushing rustic seed (8)

19 Give permission to mobile tool to do roaming (7)

21 Sore winner perhaps elected to be annoying (7)

22 I'm not sure Mass held by boy is what's heard in church (6)

24 Lack of acceptance underlies small gesture of defiance (5) 25 Some knitwear to suit an eccentric? (5)