cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 Inferred what Tom Daley did, perhaps, captivates the Queen (7)

5 Page to be first, editor begged

(7)

9 A wife almost generous?

Rubbish! (5)

10 Every second a flyer goes in

behind schedule (9)

11 Arranging musical instrument,

one with whistle (10)

12 Friends hit back (4)

14 Exotic Persia trip? No sweat

(12)

18 Despite everything, even

shelter’s damaged (12)

21 Couples softly dropped

voices (4)

22 I count on us working

uninterrupted (10)

25 I note a duck is in container

for quarantine (9)

26 Keen to ignore tail, holding

large bird (5)

27 Requiring massaging, by the

sound of it (7)

28 Questionable American power in religious community (7)

DOWN

1 Churchman of French origin in

Alcatraz with prisoner (6)

2 Match official bungle oddly

ignored safety (6)

3 Offers kinky nurse love?

About time! (10)

4 Kent town’s bargains (5)

5 Plant I vote to be uprooted?

Not very likely (9)

6 Rake in bottom of garden

under part of cereal plant (4)

7 Small drink of alcohol and a

jerk gets theatrical (8)

8 Maybe relish putting on

clothes (8)

13 Goes around North with

German travellers (10)

15 Rugby perhaps popular with

good training (9)

16 Attack that crosses a line? (8)

17 All evening Ray loses heart

with me (8)

19 ‘Poking it out’ could be

considered rude language (6)

20 Snake starts to emerge,

checking the air (6)

23 Rendered notes? (5)

24 Extract from Rimbaud a little

surrealist (4)