CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Those who fight can’t boast about holding military leader (10)

6. It exists twice as an Egyptian deity (4)

10. Thomas Atkins at rehearsal is not working for Public Health (7,8)

11. No flame is possible where Douglas is concerned (4,2,3)

12. Being public, it is finished on time (5)

13. General course is for him to be a singer (5)

15. It is pleasant to have one beheaded, according to the Creed (6)

19. Soil’s frequently first to yield relic from the past (6)

20. Except for sulphur, one puts something by (5)

23. Discussion meeting around four attended by Monsieur (5)

24. Felt sure about Democrat leader being in a state (9)

26. Contrary motion it’s ‘u’ never to comment about (15)

27. It is difficult to understand the sea, according to the poet (4)

28. Pages for test, and a NT composition (10) DOWN

1. Islander made to copy it right (7)

2. It’s not a branch that will use drugs intravenously (8)

3. US siege place in the fashion of Missouri (5)

4. Positive statements might be smart, even (9)

5. A shot at including one Italian city (5)

7. Flavoured with cumin first, secretly looked around (6)

8. How it repels tabletop of zinc (7)

9. By all such reckonings it is in accord with public opinion (8)

14. One sharing accommodation with space team can provide (4-4)

16. A carbohydrate to sell: clue nothing like it (9)

17. Six deliveries understood to be supervised (8)

18. Fed up with being unbeatably served, disfigured it (7)

21. Calms one who may be seated on the Sabbath (7)

22. Waken us, or each half may be lost (6)

24. The prime conifer on the street (5)

25. Material to spread for drying when we are inside (5)