CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Downplay the importance of musical style at unit as one leaves (8) 9 Data entry in English county town nearly finished (4-2) 10 Refusal to take responsibility when officer’s on the beat (3-3) 11 Art’s turned upside-down with poetry put on in Edinburgh theatre (8) 12 Refusal to comply with custom (4) 13 Tory’s beset with problems of value (3,5,2) 15 Places I place are out of the ordinary (7) 17 Guy’s genuine but short-lived display of criminal intent (4,3) 20 Having nerve to track dolphin (10) 22 Initially dark river seen at twilight (4) 24 Unhappiness of sister mixed up with detective sergeant (8) 26 Giving up as hard-seller declined to be engaged (3,3) 27 Seafood is being brought back around soldiers’ base (6) 28 Ski resort offers a little bubbly and nothing extra _ nothing (8)

DOWN

1 Ladies’ man doesn’t begin to sing on his own at musical event (6) 2 An angry check heard in word puzzle (8) 3 Embarrass us atop them in trouble (3,2,5) 4 Monumental figure enshrines original template in law (7) 5 One that everyone scorns is boundless in song (4) 6 Rush heedlessly through vocation (6) 7 Girl’s competent and need not be watched (8) 14 Motifs one has reprised over oratorio (3,7) 16 Northern Ireland maybe in favour of MP Cable (8) 18 Treatment done as it induced sleep (8) 19 Jump fire in coarse material (7) 21 Mottes dismantled in favour of spiritually significant objects (6) 23 Princess puts up with idiot (6) 25 Fine-woolled sheep found topped and tailed in old Ireland (4)