Cryptic Crosswor

ACROSS

1 Belittle a foundation (5)

4 Separate a bit (5)

10 Loner about to join up (5)

11 Swindler hurtles all over the place (7)

12 Cowboy to quaver about nothing (7)

13 Deep hole in baby’s shoe (5) 14 Coach from Margate, a charabanc (5)

16 No point to sycophantic followers in Arabian country (5)

21 Silly fool carrying one sheet (5)

23 Slippery and misleading without leader (7) 25 Having problems with a points failure (2,1,4) 26 Quiet massage beside bush (5)

27 Bleak isle, time to invade (5)

28 Hide tail of cat in frame (5)

DOWN

2 Nothing in ship is very ornate (7)

3 Ointment takes up most of the tray (5)

5 Spend a long time crossing (7)

6 Pass on soldiers’ song (5)

7 Some never veil enthusiasm (5)

8 Loudly converges on flower (5)

9 Hair put back in desserts (5)

15 Helicopter’s axe (7)

17 Have they escaped from awful regimes? (7)

18 Adult fellows with nine to attach (5)

19 Frequency unit is painful to say (5)

20 Cut Herbert’s plants (5)

22 Inclined to have a thin time (5) 24 Defeat top group (5)