CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Holiday place is not one’s primary residence (6,4)

6. It is stepped aboard ship with the fruits of the forest (4)

10. Foote’s potentate would, for a thousand dollars, jump – and ran amok (5,10)

11. On which still one can be on the up-and-up (9)

12. The Spanish took a meal to raise one’s spirits (5)

13. Put on a turn at 100 mph (3-2)

15. I have first to do away with a salad plant (6)

19. That one, in law, is cute as can be (6)

20. Fish around a lake in Scotland (5)

23. Aim at making a violin or a ‘cello (5)

24. Shabby as can be, the team on transfer (4-5)

26. Having dropped jigsaw one must, to restore equilibrium (4,2,3,6)

27. Message tenor may issue (4)

28. Reveller of old we log in such a way (10)

DOWN

1. It is good, among various guests, to put it to one (7)

2. Taking risks with one’s arm perhaps (8)

3. Like a lump of a youngster, on turning up (5)

4. Sincere way he left rat wandering about (9)

5. Sort of third officer? (5)

7. Nostril – a wary one, maybe (6)

8. Sort of paint to harden, given a finish (7)

9. Such as a third, taking place between the acts (8)

14. Is up over replacement being a bit before its time (8)

16. Tangle as we did, fret about it (5-4)

17. A lunatic form of navigation (8)

18. Make one’s point, pencil-wise (7)

21. With which to put the teeth to work, manually (7)

22. Monsieur attending English racecourse as a bringer of good luck (6)

24. Phrase family adopts, having a pithy saying to end it (5)

25. One banished 11 in half of itself (5)