CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 By chance, one new score’s interrupted by detectives (12) 9 Marker is only beyond motorway, in case (9) 10 Worried in the past, for instance (5) 11 Judge concerned with jailbird pocketing grand (6) 12 The woman’s wearing a hollow ‘supporter’ (8) 13 Sins of large sections of Church (6) 15 Alien phoned back endlessly outside (8) 18 Son runs into copper, facing minute analysis (8) 19 Equilibrium unaltered on edges of seat (6) 21 Suggest right piece of work’s put inside pen (8) 23 Comparatively dirty canine initially more ill-bred (6) 26 Old under orderly facing hospital (5) 27 Queen’s revolving set fitted upright (9) 28 Bent police tried changing end of confession (12)

DOWN

1 Top man, in the main (7) 2 Gripes about Opposition’s leader left in charge (5) 3 Bent detective was brilliant on street (9) 4 After knockout about to rise in corner (4) 5 Roughly caned over extremities in true story (8) 6 Shed light on that man being flexible (5) 7 With hour inside gives in, going off rails (8) 8 Go off Church reading, perhaps upsetting minister (6) 14 Coppers on alert suppressing offensive (8) 16 A northern course circling radius for polar region (9) 17 Caught in homicide, ran sneakily up (8) 18 Prostrate having done in backbone … (6) 20 … rise being supported by doctor (7) 22 More trouble going topless (5) 24 Emirate is style capital (5) 25 Stone’s old before tour’s over (4)