CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8. Recover, as will the dog without its tail (8)

9. He is to George as Blair is to Eric (6)

10. How entertaining a place red mill can be in Paris (6,5)

11. Hail starts after vast eruption (3)

13. System of belief in public reeducation (5)

15. Hoarding the invoice presented to the directors (9)

17. Strange lament am composing for member of the royal bodyguard (9-2-4)

19. Element taken out in plum arrangement (9)

21. Intuitively feel it may be the sixth (5)

23. Get older part in tragedy (3)

24. Red barrel we adapt for a bird (4,7)

27. Body of literature leading cleric pours out (6)

28. Counted, as days whose end is imminent (8)

DOWN

1. Resort to cure, sore breaking out (8)

2. Seed appendage is, in particular, illuminating (4)

3. Coin the larger wheel of the ordinary (5)

4. Spud in meal doing a turn as afters (8,7)

5. An Asian mooning around Los Angeles maybe (9)

6. Nothing you and I take to be in debt (3)

7. Very much like to be in credit for pasturage (6)

12. Degree of confidence, or its appearance in man (6)

14. Being it, Tyne is redeveloped (6)

16. A jollification runners are suited to? (9)

18. Streamed, pupils could be under a male teacher (8)

20. A vast number of the French may be foreign (6)

22. A stigma given over to destiny (5)

25. Produced young staff of life, one is told (4)

26. Choose to get work on time (3)