cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 With opener dismissed, more

than one drawing lots (6)

5 Jog by, around border (8)

9 Cursed swindle set up (10)

10 A whip cut, I’m sorry to say

(4)

11 Airmen prepared to be caught by US soldier, writing on the wall (8)

12 So I’m not convinced (6)

13 Long bag snipped at both

ends (4)

15 Comprehensive done

maintaining order, initially (8)

18 Orange tongue (8)

19 Type of rock became hard (4)

21 Little boy after somewhere

for bathing suit (6)

23 Great weight is in wood –

stagger (8)

25 House party? Murder! (2,2)

26 Muddle bad, go in and ask for

cleaner (6,4)

27 Centre is repaired privately

(2,6)

28 Finish offering loans, capital

spent (6)

DOWN

2 Nothing forbidding in

reputation (5)

3 Radical had been sent off? (45)

4 Error keeping shed fenced off

(4,2)

5 Fraud in equestrian competition? One’s taken to court (9,6)

6 Outsider grounded when

misbehaving (8)

7 Measure drunk before a play

(5)

8 Stuffed by nobleman, Conservative gets a shiner (4,5)

14 Attempt to suppress principal

in Cambridge, light blue (9)

16 Broadcast aired, song in order

(9)

17 From pass and save, some

goal? (8)

20 Position held by Pakistan,

certainly (6)

22 Meeting covering new poet

(5)

24 Old transporter in which

Irishman carries daughter (5)