CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS 8 Secret proceedings at a Crimean trial ( 2,6) 9 Rogue’s meandering travel ( 6) 10 A large number, but probably less than 100, sleep at empty nurseries ( 6) 11 Work party track wild animal with cyst ( 8) 12 Live dangerously with Hebrew tribe ( 4) 13 Flying still to be settled where ... ( 2,2,3,3) 15 ... 13’ s found currently impractical ( 4,3) 17 Part of speech a lot of people will see in European country ( 7) 20 Actors and television host in secure vessel ( 4,6) 22 Pair take off at start of competition ( 4) 24 The truce concocted by Highlander ( 8) 26 Called out when showered ( 6) 27 Never mind infestation of rats, for example ( 6) 28 Bullfighter to study alternative ( 8)
DOWN 1 Ruined when left not fastened ( 6) 2 For example, fingers on one hand break ( 4,4) 3 Buys stuff for school shop to begin in earnest ( 3,5,2) 4 Feeble Scots long to attract good halfheartedly ( 7) 5 Welshman standing on his head in main part of church ( 4) 6 Way to sing if you don’t know the words of song set in this Irish town? ( 6) 7 Being put down is a devil when holding it up with nothing ( 8)
ROS SHERARD 14 Star sign’s targeted at radio show ( 3,7) 16 Made to rise and depart at wrong end ( 8) 18 Alarming possibility at the edge ( 8) 19 Oxfam, perhaps, is feeling its way about computers ( 7) 21 Volunteers dogged by state of insensibility in American port ( 6) 23 Mark completed speech by playwright ( 6) 25 Fish for a fruit that’s been dropped ( 4)