CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mediator stops short of getting academic certificate (7) 5 Being self-contained, the boy’s writing creates deep divisions (7) 9 Fail to answer fuss about fencing manoeuvre (7) 10 Take out additional limits to credit (8) 11 Getting involved in disputes before beginning of term is most idiotic (9) 12 Administrator in India turned up evil at first chance (5) 13 Tommy requests jobs to do (5) 15 Welshman complains about bars at the back of ships (9) 16 It’s regularly flooded by sea during season on planet that’s hot (9) 18 Record that is made of television inventor’s name (5) 21 Profits from adding apple to drinks (5) 22 Most important way for airborne soldier to ascend (9) 24 Somehow drags Old English into public exams (1-6) 26 Queen designed printers measure at printing works (7) 27 Just umbrella sheltered conveyance to guillotine (7) 28 Enigmas begin afresh about the station cat (7)

DOWN

1 Poised precariously over initial timing of security payment (7) 2 Possible hesitations about Dame Edna’s form of address (7) 3 One from Arab country declares “No man is an island” (5) 4 Address of self-deprecating suitor uses satire (1,6,8) 5 Her duties performed, how the cleaning lady would like to get carried away by romance (5,3,3,4) 6 Headgear that’s had crown removed (3) 7 His wail is translated into a foreign language (7) 8 Arrange golf areas so people have somewhere to sit (7) 12 Reef seam has original rock in the centre (5) 14 Bodies dug up on this Aegean island (5) 16 Clock off, ousting operation (4,3) 17 Irish county sports floral garland decoration (7) 19 There’s too much to heal missing top of posterior muscle (7) 20 Variously seats in curve of classical column (7) 23 Was downcast about minimally powerful transport (5) 25 Leads disapproval over raid on beetle (3)