WH Crossword

ACROSS

1 In youth it can be harrowing (7)

5 Paints for men — sale doubtful (7)

9 Distracted about a ball when imbibing (9)

10 US serving man with a bit of garden may be taunted (5)

11 Storm and split with a party (7)

12 Individual after a different name for a flower (7)

13 Soldiers and general coming back again (9)

16 Mountains are inland, especially high ones (5)

17 An aim could become a wild enthusiasm (5)

18 Plant needing little water yet yielding weighty harvest (9)

21 Being beastly, takes a long time coming into line (7)

22 This is not so flavoursome, so lay it on thick (7)

25 Returning seamen receiving cash for fish (5) 26 He’s making a claim as per new offer (9)

27 An artist’s underclothing (7) 28 Reckon to join quite unreservedly (7)

DOWN

1 Heavy-duty machinery to haul up a hill (7)

2 Given rotten roles — he just can’t win! (5)

3 The main distributor of material vital to everyone (5)

4 Regards European money as a bad thing (7)

5 More weight to remove! (7) 6 The sum required for building work (9)

7 Get the needle and do some decorating (9)

8 Showing craft about Danes’ treatment for depression (7)

14 Meeting a number on the track (9)

15 Vacillating, it is clear, but that’s true-to-form (9)

17 Harasses medicos carrying in case (7) 18 Means of transport for the person unconscious of progress (7)

19 Not on strike, being eccentric (7)

20 Left the light paint (7) 23 Efficient, so likely to keep notes (5)

24 Subject to ups and downs in the main (5)