SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Going down and saying no (9)

6 Better preserved (5)

9 The man got back into the Rover car with her (5)

10 Coming out with and taking a look at (9) 11 A very early form of music (4,6)

12 Pushed off the side (4)

14 There’s compunction and more distress at the rise I lost out on (7)

15 With a good book and a Lehar waltz, out to keep one absorbed (7)

17 Meant not to take part in the act (7) 19 Examines with a light the interior of the drawers (7)

20 Having got engaged, take home (4) 22 Rides off and drags roughly behind: is neglectful of (10)

25 Feeling money is not a substitute (9) 26 For the present, perhaps, is keyed up (5) 27 Live for the day, without stinting oneself (5)

28 Chucking, perhaps, a hundred into the dump (5-4)

DOWN

1 Perished with cold inside and very much cut up (5)

2 A tea-lady would be a help (9)

3 I can correct the clergyman, but it wouldn’t be quite right (10)

4 How the atomic scientist confessed he was a heavy drinker? (7)

5 Gets out to turn again when you make the sign (7)

6 A well-wisher, perhaps, but a funny fellow (4)

7 Make high lights, say (5)

8 The figure, a fifty, is written on the drug (9) 13 No napping after the alarm went off: honestly (8,2)

14 Made up for having got out of line? (9) 16 Roger and I travelling in America (3,6) 18 The Welshman misleads the papers (7) 19 There’s nothing hidden in the niche, officer (7)

21 Scale the mountains (5)

23 Covers up the rest (5)

24 Not truly great? (4)