CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Would-be emendation to bodily punishment (10)

6. It is not a rocky business concern (4)

10. Dog that older tiger never upsets (6,9)

11. Little Briton who doesn’t want to be a part of Europe (9)

12. Endless strife involved, getting a top degree (5)

13. Rush along to free it from grease (5)

15. Might seek five-nil result if it awakens memories (6)

19. Is privy to the private chamber of a sovereign (6)

20. Flat stone thrown by a circumnavigator (5)

23. Bleak turntable (5)

24. Money held: have faith in it getting found, nothing missing (5,4)

26. In Devonshire a sibling may be a sectarian (8,7)

27. Its appearance in opera really is uncommon (4)

28. Stands for half-real gifts (10)

DOWN

1. Young birds and small seals, one is told (7)

2. One girl I converted to the faith (8)

3. Deem a different form of it to be dropsy (5)

4. Its sender might show a need for sleep (9)

5. Tarka turned up in a secret tournament (5)

7. To rivet around end of section, turn it up (6)

8. Deserved to get half of them tired out (7)

9. A landing-place, if railed off (8)

14. It is telling for a member of the family (8)

16. No longer fashionable, a song will be more prevalent (9)

17. Monkey with a friar (8)

18. One applauding what rings a bell (7)

21. Bears finish with a sort of ruse (7)

22. Actor in rep upset about a situation (6)

24. It may be right to let it out (5)

25. Instruments one ornaments bookcover with (5)