SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Small percentage of the public who’ll wear a mad hair style? (7,6)

8 Getting me soon to point out a certain individual (7)

9 Flushing at the “Hi there!” (7)

11 Go back into an ever more vertiginous spin (6)

13 A hole is made in case, possibly, it requires holes (8)

15 Reminder to give the artist’s model the key to get in (5)

16 One friend I accommodated is stony! (7) 18 Is fish right to start with, as food? (7) 19 Would a mister be going in to see that old fossil? (5)

21 Calling by name, sing it out (8)

23 Going through Asia, missing out a country (6)

25 Understand, as before beer is to go in it (7)

26 The following occupation (7) 28 Thinking unkind thoughts? (6,7)

DOWN

2 In the same position, is dry-eyed and indifferent (7)

3 An incitement that creates a stir (3)

4 How the yokel told you he was cross, the beast! (4)

5 After being set free, the shrew ran in for a drink (5,5)

6 The first person to name the woman (5) 7 Forbidding one to show one’s face (7) 8 Does your temperature jump when you get it? (6,5)

10 What the majority of greedy people go for in a share-out (7,4)

12 Dances somewhere else (5)

14 As a good sinker will with a fisherman? (2,4,4)

17 Where you see an example of a vowel, silly! (5)

18 It’s royal property, you say again (7) 20 A fattening colour? (7)

22 Do or don’t stick (5)

24 Water-side fight (4)

27 Again putting in “O deer”! (3)