SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 It won’t get you home cooking for one (6,4)

6 Meantime, separate (4)

10 Appreciate the bound sets of reading material (7)

11 Getting the belt clasped round our corporation with difficulty (7)

12 Aunt is to wangle one into a job (9) 13 Rows and the sound of crying (5)

14 Mark does behave petulantly (5) 15 Rereading about the guard (9)

17 The foreigner scattered rice to trap the animal (9)

20 Stashes money away in a jar in the bathroom? (5)

21 Extremely neutral on the NE clash (5) 23 Having distributed the counterfeit money, went away (6,3)

25 An item in the newspaper (7)

26 Turfed out the Eastern interloper, which disproved it (7)

27 It takes ages for the three-quarters to trap the ball (4)

28 Put off by the tears, they stop (10)

DOWN

1 Agrees with the Italian yes-man (5)

2 Make a deal to dope up the tea I brewed (9)

3 The farewell performance in the role of the ghost? (4,10)

4 Not eating, but having a quick gin out (7) 5 Train one up in ‘The Greek Centre’ (7) 7 Don’t rush the meal out, having had breakfast in (5)

8 Convinced, in floods of tears, they’re very valuable (9)

9 What one has, if responsible for the correspondence of many? (3,2,6,3)

14 Make the proviso that I put new roofing material outside (9)

16 Obtained as a patient? (3-6)

18 Being allowed into the deep to swim does have an exhausting effect (7)

19 What to do with aloofness, having been foot-faulted? (7)

22 Giant soldiers in a box (5)

24 Becomes weak and pale (5)