COFFEE TIME

ACROSS 1 Amusing (7)

5 Send down (5) 8 Clinging plant (3) 9 Ground (7)

10 Perfect (5)

11 Tug (4)

12 Emblems of office (7) 14 Jumps (6) 16 Curb (6)

19 Policeman (7)

21 Elapse (4)

24 Remnant from past (5) 25 Ne’er-do-well (7) 26 Knowledge (3)

27 Loosely dirty (5) 28 Church tower (7)

DOWN

1 Town (4) 2 Code (5) 3 Crazy (7) 4 Ships (6) 5 Prone (5) 6 Trundled (7) 7 Liberated (8) 13 Detested (8) 15 Reveals (7) 17 Retort (7) 18 Diadems (6) 20 Superior (5) 22 Undress (5) 23 Colour (4)