SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “In Lapland there’s bad weather, my love” the foreigner wrote (8)

5 Opens up and cleans out (6)

10 Not an impression of strength? (6,9) 11 Bashes right in, but doesn’t get any food (7)

12 Coach from a book (7)

13 The transport and food provided in it were a surprise (8)

15 Try “A sense of what’s right for the occasion” (5)

18 Ice representing hazards to shipping (5) 20 Greatly liked, but unaffordable? (4,4) 23 The money needed for the fine (7) 25 Wear for the players (7)

26 A sign of life? (8,7)

27 “Are important,” he snarls (6)

28 The home is, indeed, airless (8)

DOWN

1 It’s useless to jib at it (6)

2 It’s stiff and one cleans it with difficulty (9) 3 Free? Give over? (7)

4 Issues it among the letters (5)

6 Opposed to an increase that’s on the way (7)

7 One might a tree, to get caught on a branch (5)

8 Left in for a member of the family to guard (8)

9 The untidiness one complains of (8) 14 Neck and neck with, got ahead of, as trained (8)

16 Not a tight-fitting garment? (5-4) 17 Announce it’s for the shellfish I am to stuff (8)

19 “Anyhow, a taste,” I interpose, “will be more than enough” (7)

21 It’s some silly boy standing outside, old girl (7)

22 Go up and pack the case: Mandy may go (6)

24 Indicate there’s a score (5)

25 Herb is about to go back for Scamp (5)