cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 Strong jump to follow marine

creature, we hear (6-5)

9 Cheat dealer? (4-5)

10 Question model (5)

11 Make priest fix radio before

noon (6)

12 One favouring trees all over

the place? (8)

13 Book flight (6)

15 Officer’s information on

armed criminal (8)

18 Remake of ET, anyhow, is in

progress (2,3,3)

19 Bad detectives legged it first

(6)

21 What a footballer usually

won’t want for free (8)

23 Check rower’s bench (6)

26 Let on about John? (5)

27 Stop country curse (9)

28 ‘Act proper’ for man celebrating to some extent (11)

DOWN

1 This person’s upset about

dress that’s very small (7)

2 Mum, visibly embarrassed? A

bit (5)

3 Tiredness of girl on ‘The X

Factor’ due to dance (9)

4 Black 2 in card game (4)

5 Like flatbread, perhaps, not

made to stick (8)

6 Swindle involving Republican,

one on the (big) fiddle? (2,3)

7 Source of hot air exposed in

Scottish town (7)

8 Mysterious drunk seen in East

Morecambe? (8)

14 People rejected unfashionable actors on first part of show (8)

16 Strange paradigm about hospital displaying body part (9)

17 Exotic dancer welcomes a

student for series of dates (8)

18 Endless meatloaf served up

as breakfast food (7)

20 Deem the end – then, oddly,

a lessening of tensions (7)

22 Dawn’s a star at university (32)

24 A Welsh girl from somewhere

out east (5)

25 Something to shoot

unlimited meat (4)