CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Monkey beginning to descend tropical tree (8)

5 Exile foreign ruler possessing good English (6)

10 Sleeper in tent with 150 flies around? You need this! (6,9)

11 Drop litres in mouth before Christmas, when year’s out (7) 12 What may come with making me a lord (7) 13 Some mathematical iterations, they ought to be learned (8)

15 Foul rubbish gathering at home (5)

18 City’s losing to Newcastle initially, bringing crowd together (5)

20 Knocked back unknown gloop outside solitary drinker’s study? (8) 23 Dawning of new progressive movement (7)

25 Novelist halved year’s rest (7)

26 Bucket contains rags dad recycled (4,4,3,4) 27 Serve without stiffness (6)

28 Supports family making headwear (8)

DOWN

1 Patient sorting of silver, dividing incomplete samples (6)

2 Revolutionary Soviet cum “capitalist” (9) 3 One isolated from Conservative Left entering new employment (7) 4 Possible source of drugs turned up E’s and whizz (5)

6 Digger’s long period in American’s shed (4,3) 7 Excessive desire to have browser — Google’s first up (5) 8 Grounds for incarcerating one male judge (8) 9 Cephalonia’s interior is steaming — get as far from the sun as possible (8)

14 Renegade contessa finally set for the future without duke

(8)

16 Warm corner in valley by old well (9)

17 Boiling uniform with fastening sleeves (2,2,4)

19 Design aid: tool for drawing street for page (7)

21 Wash three articles from the Continent (7) 22 Soul singer’s lead part in Evita (6)

24 Stint as captain stretching over months (5)

25 Charming American uplifted by welcome (5)