CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Soup to make fun of: turn it upside down (4,6)

6. A monster therefore makes a comeback (4)

10. Chambers, in which one entry risks fatal result (7,8)

11. Unfeeling as a limp lettuce may be (9)

12. Corn for one in a labyrinth (5)

13. Commence a sudden involuntary movement (5)

15. Be about to dine out with a politician (6)

19. An Australian excavator (6)

20. They are put on one who seems to be ageing (5)

23. I am about to take a turn with a friendly Spaniard (5)

24. Make Albert tea, and he will be responsive to therapy (9)

26. Being fit to be seen now enables the South to adapt (15)

27. In the city it expires: in the country it’s a yellowhammer (4)

28. Leather bags lend heroes a different aspect (10) DOWN

1. There are demos on the borders (7)

2. An outcast finds the players absent (8)

3. A fool about to start saving twine (5)

4. Giving a performance like a first coat of plaster (9)

5. Directs attention to one’s comeliness (5)

7. Extravagantly macabre style of church building (6)

8. An electrode or perhaps (part of) fire (7)

9. Mercy Attlee almost showed to Cyprus (8)

14. Made to fit one old rate of exchange (8)

16. May be pervaded in order to repel beam (9)

17. Songbirds found right among the flies (8)

18. In India a cot, or pay arranged after church (7)

21. Let it stand one’s boy a hat (7)

22. Unspoken lies about a bid at cards (6)

24. Name a section of a lawbook (5)

25. They saw bicuspids (5)