CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Made up material a boy finished off (10)

6. Address to Archdeacon It’s hot in here! (4)

10. Stories at the Tabard might snub TT relay race (10,5)

11. What doesn’t conduct LSO takes a turn with one (9)

12. Some liquid was illuminating to the Sappers (5)

13. It’s under the cattle at Holyhead (5)

15. Tough test as alternative to business transaction (6)

19. No amateur, in short, to go in for examination good luck! (6)

20. Drinking too much tea he doesn’t finish the cornet (5)

23. What infects the old man from Rome? Us! (5)

24. Where to eat Italian tart a riot, it turns out (9)

26. Where white line marks no extremists (6-2-3-4)

27. Au naturel she appears in France about five hundred in England (4)

28. Stands for the traveller but grudges the rest (10)

DOWN

1. Half, say, right out for contentious party (7)

2. A surety for a man-slave (8)

3. Thought the half-century couldn’t be bettered (5)

4. Wanting advancement, there’s scope for notes of debt (9)

5. ‘O hateful __, melancholy’s child!’(J Caesar) (5)

7. With half-luck, put cross about spiral form (6)

8. Information around gets up for something put by (4-3)

9. He’s resolute, Stuart — non-u, breaking law instead (8)

14. There’s pressure on to buy hall Reds have shattered (4,4)

16. He runs down half the side with a farm vehicle (9)

17. Destroy, as red revolution in urban area will (4,4)

18. Primitive being will call short holiday up (7)

21. Russian leader was blue turning up at Hungarian dance (7)

22. Added argument partially given over to being categorised (6)

24. He left the cavity that keeps the oar in place (5)

25. Braid of hair, if Diana’s, will make one suffer (5)