WH Crossword

ACROSS

7 When it is, the creditor may not allow it (4, 2, 3) 8 It is even palindromic (5) 10 Measure following cut in naval establishment (8) 11 Firm support for item of office equipment (6) 12 A Northern Island lake — a blue-violet colour (4) 13 Taken by those who are sick and tired of work? (4-4) 15 Word play (7) 17 Revolutionary means of power on board (7) 20 Result of division not quite correct (8) 22 Uses the knuckles to fight back (4) 25 Take in the sailor’s world (6) 26 Oriental girl on a charge that is thrown out (8) 27 Instruction must be concise (5) 28 Working steam mill of no great importance (5-4)

DOWN

1 He flies a good deal (5) 2 Give the call sign (6) 3 Summed up as a tale told inaccurately (8) 4 They are made to scale (7) 5 They are paid by formal visitors (8) 6 A show trial (9) 9 Experts in cards (4) 14 Games pitch out in the garden (9) 16 An editor fiddled when on an allowance (8) 18 Dilatory perhaps, but performed with skill (8) 19 Masses of people moving about in the morning in the streets (7) 21 Falls in the sea (4) 23 A steep fluctuation in currency (6) 24 Teachings that follow closely on a degree (5)