Kropotkin 1077

Across

7. Such wine for the last King and men on board reportedly (5,3) 9. Saw beginning of bowls: he led off (6) 10. A body of soldiers in dock apparently (6) 11. These are just methods of getting to parts of St Andrews (8) 12. Dalmatian possibly is being eaten by female horse? That might be tasty! (7,7) 15. Plagiarise Bach (4) 17. Is throwing away one old coin – Rose has it (5) 19. Escape death – while it’s happening? (4) 20. Three carmakers developing new models might need this (6,8)

23. I run out (time to leave game), but some have reservations (8) 25. Fruit put in old kitchen stove (6) 27. Use an obstruction that is constricting Mike Walker (6) 28. Porter catches hake – cooked – put in mouth (4,4)

Down

1. Release prisoner at last, being in charge (4) 2. Royal daughter in Iberia loses footing – must be a young one (6) 3. Pudding for Oliver and Alan (4) 4. Guitarist Billy Kristian initially appearing in Crosby show (1,1,4) 5. How girls dancing about can become one (8) 6. Causes disruptions to calypso dance in which Virginia and Henry flipped (5,5) 8. Visitors in cellars getting drunk (7) 13. What Oliver wanted: male lead in opera composed here in Auckland (10) 14. Romeo, being in love, is dismal! (5) 16. Final part of cargo in sailing ships consists of rough pearls (8) 18. Get grass from Troy (American, 24) (7) 21. English poem’s beginning with ‘poems’ – they are poems! (6) 22. Indian member of the Parisian underworld stewing a peach (6) 24. Belt got from electric current but hospital not needed (4) 26. The provider of fuel like petrol we hear (4)