CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 When most advanced, noticed what was predicted (7) 5 Put on a show for supporter with food to follow (7) 9 Is about to get ring to be celebrated (7) 10 Awards prizes, and returns the gratuities (7) 11 Dramatist describes good old metal-worker (9) 12 Make a racket, with some hesitation, at a small restaurant (5) 13 Doctor took me back over a flight of fancy (5) 15 Understands a principal makes good progress (4,5) 16 Realm most upset is in total confusion (9) 18 Accept that daughter abandoned a deadly sin (5) 21 Two hands had no time, at first, for records (5) 22 Aged boats turned out to have been undermined (9) 24 Pays attention to popular melodies, at the beginning (5,2) 26 People in Bute, say, are not necessarily detached (7) 27 Tails off going round ancient city, attending some ceremonies (7) 28 Estimated that a visitor might stay, we’re told (7)

DOWN

1 Support those who are getting on, when they tracked down food (7) 2 Determine to let Bible class figure it out, in the end (7) 3 Bosses of small branches employ students without a good book (5) 4 Matching offers to mark a new union (7,8) 5 Wait, in the interim, until some other arrangement is made (3,3,4,5) 6 Leading novelist expected, when hot off the press (3) 7 Manage to get artist back to register (7) 8 Was quite definite, in the end, but he made certain (7) 12 Give a small measure to associate in play (5) 14 Poles had little time in service (5) 16 One day, in short, the others managed to catch an ogre (7) 17 Was out-of-date, so finished up wiped out (7) 19 Wines and dines when about to get good beers (7) 20 Was a bit rough going, in the end, but toughed it out (7) 23 Sat back in empty tube, showing discrimination (5) 25 Find a health resort in the grounds of a bishop’s palace (3)