CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 In great difficulties out of one’s depth (2,4,5) 9 Father struggling during success that is not convincingly developed (5-4) 10 Stiff with cold but not to start with (5) 11 Bitter sweet (4) 12 Obstacle to free speech (10) 14 Soldiers surround a base (4) 15 Smashing time dawn (5,2,3) 19 Checking the horse’s speed (8,2) 20 Spoken without starting to be virtuous (4) 21 Workers I name inside together (4,2,4) 23 Sound reply (4) 25 Deputy officer stuck in chimney (5) 27 Homeliest sort are agile (9) 28 City air (11)

DOWN 1 News being made (11) 2 It is not fair to be kept in it (4) 3 Record one of us being taken in by wader, it only lasts for a day (9) 4 Flinch but gain this in France (5) 5 Extremely hot on loch (8) 6 Druggist’s mat? (3) 7 Pair clock on deceiver (3-5) 8 I’d turn in at the entrance (4) 13 Not listed in old book of names (2-9) 16 Cut off a dateline when travelling (9) 17 Chicken about to turn up more jaundiced (8) 18 Subcontinental graduate entering ship (8) 21 Keep in place below deck (4) 22 Greeting, nothing coming from below room (5) 24 Change ever violently (4) 26 Conscientious objector with lake pass (3)