Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

1 Opera taken into Scandinavia (5)

4 Exclusive bit of ice cream? (5)

10 Diplomat’s sin covered over (5)

11 Head of government destroys empire, right? (7)

12 Talk about leader of order, in charge, and confused (7)

13 Relative finding empathy at first in French resort (5)

14 Sherbets set out with plants (5)

16 Be about to make fun of a corrupt offer (5)

21 Some of the decor furnishing isolated area (5)

23 Allows cheek to escape (3,4)

25 Apart from a northern city with no land (7)

26 I’d air differences to produce spokes in a circle (5)

27 Rose makes this point (5)

28 Churchman runs off edge (5)

DOWN

2 Do away with building above it (7)

3 About to rent, say, vault (5)

5 Conservative more slim, less besmirched (7)

6 Give your views on a circular tree (5)

7 Place for a bird and fish (5)

8 Swiftly father is taken in by one (5)

9 Wept when cider spilt (5)

15 Colorado city sounds more courageous (7)

17 Target and worry canine (7)

18 No place for canoe, adrift! (5)

19 Pound put in for a girl (5)

20 A month in Capri? Lovely (5)

22 Crude type of frill, from what we hear (5)

24 Visitor tends to hold cake (5)