CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Are red-hats at home to such offence? (8,3)

8. Ransack somebody’s goods for a gun (5)

9. Hero’s beloved rowing club (7)

10. Failed to say I’d motet to compose (7)

11. Let it provide one with the name of a book (5)

12. A plan discernible in the disc he mentions (6)

14. Given a cost, one could almost predict the outcome (6)

18. A refuge from paradise once the East was lost (5)

19. Valour shown by Red Indian warrior on the railway (7)

21. Harmonic arrangement was not started by radio pioneer (7)

23. It is short of trees to plant out (5)

24. The points of suspense on which one is impatient (11)

DOWN

1. Wants to know about us going after a bit of bric-a-brac (7)

2. It is far over angle to be like a rake (7)

3. It is foolish for writer to be put up in it (5)

4. Refer to a duel carried out when about fifty (6)

5. The man with the gun may eat it first (7)

6. Start to fall asleep when Spanish gentleman shows up (3)

7. Compulsion with which the air became service (5)

13. No: moon’s obscure as it blows in from the Indian Ocean (7)

15. It may be the last word where health is concerned (7)

16. Aridity may show how un-sweet wine is (7)

17. Constrain one to do somebody a good turn (6)

18. I’d gone after the smell that showed it to be damp (5)

20. Make one chat about aspiration (5)

22. Only half the food allowance is given to a renegade (3)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Combatants 6. Isis 10. Private practice 11. Isle of Man 12. Overt 13. Tenor 15. Nicene 19. Fossil 20. Saves 23. Forum 24. Flustered 26. Countermovement 27. Deep 28. Attendants Down 1. Cypriot 2. Mainline 3. Alamo 4. Averments 5. Turin 7. Spiced 8. Spelter 9. Accounts 14. Room-mate 16. Cellulose 17. Overseen 18. Defaced 21. Sedates 22. Arouse 24. First 25. Tweed