cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 Put up arms, and their

attachments (8,6)

10 Without a recipe, cooks

whisper and drink (7,2)

11 Something Italian chefs make in annoyance, adding nothing (5)

12 Gong goes about one – start of crossword-solving exam? (7)

13 Tyger with a new spin (6)

15 Heartless sport that may be

seen in ring (4)

17 Swimming as vocation, somewhere beside the Atlantic (4,6)

18 Sprats at dinner-time – one’s option would be to do this rabbit (4,3,3)

20 Insect following grouse (4)

22 Son gets tot up, interrupting

rest (6)

23 Pickled eel sandwiches German city backed for honour (7)

26 Universal smell reservists

found over naval vehicle (1-4)

27 Wreckage may be acceptable

in cutting allotment (9)

28 Gas ring let fuel spread, sticking to its own controls (4-10)

DOWN

2 Watered the garden in tights?

(5)

3 Clue an alternative for

‘Loosen’ (6)

4 Saudis all owe debts – to a large extent that’s forbidden (10)

5 Grave message close to

charcuterie: ‘Ready to eat’ (4)

6 Learner at first not taking part in developing spicy mime (34)

7 Break down seeing detective’s

meeting with hood (9)

8 Battle with copper one might

be hard-pushed to win? (5-9)

9 Green, blue and red school

flag (7,7)

14 Bossy male hack wearing wire

for broadcast? (10)

16 Lolly on list as something

that adds to a meal? (5,4)

19 Fraud is bit of a blow (7)

21 Young admirer follows popular character shown by TV before five (6)

24 One sitting in outbuilding in

Scotland, 21 (5)

25 Leader to call newspaper’s

bluff (4)