CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Non-stop finish? Not so much! (7)

5. Retrieved cricket ball if led astray by editor (7)

9. Turn out to be the wrong end, right, for food? (9)

10. Earth’s Latin year returning to hold it back (5)

11. Cross way to get one standing a seat (5)

12. He writes plays about mad artist perhaps (9)

13. Being thin-skinned, it takes four to have a feeling about it (9)

16. American soldier embraced by Scot: it’s sorcery! (5)

17. Short-tempered non-drinker caught in the beam (5)

18. It’s no different in aircraft if one throws it overboard (9)

20. Went with another, like N with S? (9)

23. To make speeches and be a deserter in Old English (5)

25. Substantial breaking-up of idols (5)

26. Balance of one in the red might avert Ford (9)

27. Aridity suffered by Yard losing a return to monster Loch (7)

28. He’s out – or he’s attacking on the field! (7)

DOWN

1. Non-stop train: how to put it? (7)

2. Not a worker, doctor: unit number! (5)

3. Galvanise one into making it cry: feel! (9)

4. Was partisan team beginning to defect? (5)

5. Business concern, so let it be bust finally (the sky’s the limit!) (9)

6. A supernumerary may be in the next radio-show (5)

7. Making a mistake in odd reversal of daring action (7-2)

8. Extreme use of star held by detectives who turn up (7)

14. Nature is almost one’s fellow-fighter, as you’d expect (9)

15. It’s hurtful to join RU: is ‘u’ to make break like this (9)

16. Sounds like masculine command of shopping-by-post (4,5)

17. Rested, or sat again? (7)

19. Part of bushel, term used for screening structure (7)

21. A gentle push, and Greta will initially appear in the raw (5)

22. Put something on and get the lines straight (5)

24. There’s a shortage: oh, deary me! (5)