CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Huge infant may have lain on it (10)

6. Lean against an unfinished cask (4)

10. It’s outside the course of Academe (5-10)

11. It enables one to overlook the précis Poe wrote out (9) 12. Body part worked by hands and feet (5)

13. Their bed provides a life of comfort (5)

15. Fuel rating once at variance with it (6)

19. It takes about a year in public relations, such entreaty (6) 20. How we set out the pudding course (5)

23. Soviet prison system adopted from Gaul on 3rd August (5) 24. Castle no one can build where the country meets the sea (9) 26. Social writer must go, so clips in circulation (6,9)

27. May have nothing to say about bean sauce (4) 28. Washeteria is under let, at this arrangement (10)

DOWN

1. How could it be leper that one will use to page one? (7)

2. It may be flying in support (8)

3. Takes top part on a flat roof (5)

4. Study of nerves only rouge can replace (9)

5. Say one will get on together (5)

7. There may be a bulge from the supplier of caviar (6)

8. Despots who try out models of industry (7)

9. Gives an explanation of the company’s books (8)

14. So a girl around the East may find herself kept in here (8)

16. Apostle perhaps ran it around in a waterproof sheet (9)

17. One who’s for woman-power if it’s men that get involved (8)

18. Gets into gear as one begins military action (7)

21. Letters put out in support (7)

22. High-ranking form show at end of play (6)

24. Drink nothing when there’s a narcotic shrub around (5)

25. Its merit might be in its counting of the minutes (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across: 7. Consternation 8. Prevaricate

12. Untold 14. Astern 16. Denude 18. Classy 19. Salutations 23. A train to catch

Down: 1. Poop 2. Esse 3. Reward 4. Angina 5. Stoa 6. Mole 9. Rotunda

10. Treason 11. Only 12. Undo 13. Lid 15. Sal 17. Extent 18. Cotton

19. Site 20. Leap 21. Oral 22. Sack