CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Get and hold a coin for something worthless (10)

6. Old Edgar the painter didn’t quite make a comeback (4)

10. Where people were educated in general, and logic to a T (8-7)

11. One blue and one other form that can’t be heard (9)

12. It is brought to the pitch by the player (5)

13. From trees one might get a chemical compound (5)

15. Is in action? Certainly! (6)

19. Old coaches one mounts in the theatre (6)

20. Drink from a plant (5)

23. Where soap is concerned it’s a washout (5)

24. The desolation of lakes and bens, possibly (9)

26. Simper of bachelor who lost first love at breaking engagement (6,2,7)

27. Put things on an equal basis, and that’s flat (4)

28. Driver of quadriga, or each tire he used (10)

DOWN

1. Colour it in: record only half of it (7) 2. An afternoon’s entertainment in Boston (3,5)

3. Is keen on getting stoned (5) 4. Belong with the Inn that may be elevating one (9)

5. Market’s specialised group in ethnic headwear (5)

7. On which one may be putting cabbage and the like (6)

8. Chinatown in Germany (7)

9. Uses soft soap that star left around (8)

14. Sappers take to a foxhole to cut down on expenses (8)

16. Colour that will make a dog off-colour (9) 17. Benefit without cost is what the faredodger is after (4,4)

18. Story with a moral, or, how to leave polar bear (7)

21. It will seem wrong, in a drinkingplace, to daub it (7)

22. A cold sign incorrectly seen on leaving zone (6)

24. Soup that may have cultural uses (5) 25. It may be OK for the city to toy with it (5)