CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Yet accommodation is to be found for housekeepers’ pantries (10)

6. Boast of having returned to one’s clothing (4)

10. One may be a degree of knowledge in IT (8,7)

11. Zigzag tapestry patterns sell bag, or can be adapted (9)

12. Relatively speaking, old women were gossips (5)

13. Poor scholar caught in nude form (5)

15. Slowly infuse it against illness, partially (6)

19. Sort of light tiger country (6)

20. Is venal about a sort of orange (5)

23. Braid it and lap it around (5)

24. Cribs a fee from the papers it holds perhaps (9)

26. Flag, the Cross of St George, not the way she is spoke? (8,7)

27. Start on including gym lessons (4)

28. View American takes of the outline plan (10)

DOWN

1. Is ill-confined to it (7)

2. I’m using gin and rum maybe when bricking one in (8)

3. A despicable person from Seoul (5)

4. Smothering it finished mendacity (9)

5. Monsieur invites hypocritical expressions (5)

7. The canvas covering is not starting to look tired (6)

8. Happy to be not as much in bed (7)

9. Expansion may be laid into (8)

14. At dusk it’s evident it changes the East (8)

16. Smooth quality is less kin to it (9)

17. One keeping birds may pay RA a visit (8)

18. Where painting is concerned, it’s laying it on a bit thick (7)

21. Old physicians made first Leicestershire cheese (7)

22. Display made by a row of shops (6)

24. Insect that gets through but sounds tedious? (5)

25. Ricercare is endless fun to half the guests (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across: 7. Shark-infested 8. Observatory

12. Gander 14. Evenly 16. Labial 18. Bereft 19. Expeditious

23. Problematical

Down: 1. Shoo 2. Arms 3. Mirror 4. Efface 5. Oslo 6. Very 9. Band-box

10. Rondeau 11. Cyst 12. Gall 13. Era 15. Vie 17. Ladder 18. Betray

19. Earl 20. Pubs 21. Omit 22. Sway