CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 8 Teaching you, in French, to get angry (8) 9 Desk I’m on displays old name for Arctic culture (6) 10 Fell into ruin, we hear, in ten years (6) 11 End party in disarray with excessive concern for details (8) 12 Nothing but one original new deserted lobby (4) 13 Knowledgeable enough to restructure exterior of hospital wing (10) 15 When anyone may visit – any dope, as it turns out (4,3) 17 Sickness the French find humdrum (7) 20 Drug dealer to pay cheat or suffer (10) 22 About to choose native Egyptian (4) 24 Exceedingly clever people see us getting sozzled with gin (8) 26 Thanks given to guy who explored southern hemisphere (6) 27 Give up drink when it’s not raining (3,3) 28 Cleverly contrived tar tan from northern river (4-4)

DOWN 1 Egg-yolk yellow instrument that’s popular (6) 2 Be lenient with hired thug who’s simple at heart (2,4,2) 3 Each sapper ran in hare-and-hounds race (5,5) 4 Now peas have been made into missiles (7) 5 On return, endlessly dwell on what’s offensive (4) 6 Soups made from lizards? (6) 7 Stamps when misprint is broadcast (8) 14 Alternate selection of all the rest (5,5) 16 Pulling strings to get young companion animal onto railway (8) 18 Swinging music season composed in former inland sea (4,4) 19 Marginal agreements seen in broad outline (7) 21 Over draft discovered after journey with photographic equipment (6) 23 Irish potato I blab about (6) 25 Nastiness, losing patience initially, see non location (4)