CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1. Tries to get picked up by sailors. This could get joint wrecked (10) 6. Key legislation's defect (4)
10. Heater pipe filled with gauze regularly losing fragments (7) 11. Disconcert artilleryman? Not good and very unsafe, ultimately (7) 12. Investigator of complaints from mum bad son shot
(9)
13. Drop in current is in prospect with amps lost (5)
14. Acted as a substitute silk (5)
15. Revel in true AI working after a measure of illumination (9) 17. Dismiss Ibsen character as a radical (9)
20. Elite troops annoyed odd characters in army (1-4) 21. Troublesome insect perhaps over sauce (5)
23. Tape recorder, possibly for court official (4,5)
25. More wasted days by athlete halfheartedly covering kilometres (7) 26. Hostility as I film bodyguard (7)
27. Where one sees bathing cap, old (4) 28. Began tango entering in position with dandy boy (10)
DOWN 1. Banned volunteers voice displeasure (5) 2. Banal tour going around capital city (4,5)
3. Assembly obstructs constructive elements (8,6)
4. Brown, or yellowishbrown with a red initially added in (7) 5. Topping sequin socks from America for a special date (7) 7. Forest primate getting energy from small parrots (5) 8. What’s nutritious with the marge spread? (5,4)
9. Free link somehow joins net via URL
(9,5)
14. Frequently trailing second note in set of bells is tone down (4-5)
16. Change the last word Democrat intended in speech (9)
18. Trouble herons uncovered in flight control (7)
19. One filling small cavities over time?
(7)
22. Seafood’s twenty-one shillings? (5)
24. Happy if place does not appear relaxed
(5)