WH Crossword

ACROSS

1 Sleep and oxygen helping recovery (11)

9 Lock-opening craft? (5, 4)

10 Almost lavish, in a way, opening such bottles? (5)

11 Scene in opera spectacular (6)

12 Voided contract to secure rooms (8)

13 First service? (6)

15 Terminals in which parrot is suspect? (8)

18 Doctor is a poet reading aloud (8)

19 A National Trust border county? (6)

21 Tenacious advocate (8)

23 Blanket found in mountain top on Choctaw? No further south (6)

26 Coins may be changed in such a boom! (5)

27 Hails spot to be developed for health installation (9)

28 Device to keep the work down in the office? (11)

DOWN

1 Worked miracle to effect recapture (7)

2 Dawn is a big star at university (3-2)

3 Authority to sink graves, say, on the premises? (2-7)

4 A mile approved? Crazy people run it! (4)

5 Tip diner managed for game? (8)

6 Original story (5)

7 Second teams announced also (7)

8 Bruiser who uses a drumstick? (8)

14 Asking for a loan of money can be heartbreaking (8)

16 Christmas show which top men aim to turn out (9)

17 Uncle’s place of business – or Pop’s, would you say? (8)

18 Tries over a year to obtain report (7)

20 Doctor to charge when night-light is lost (7)

22 Run over, harness-horse is retired (5)

24 Ding-dong for the MacDonalds, say, at opening of Glencoe? (5)

25 Employer’s quarter in ancient city (4)