CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Most miserable sum inherited by southern estate (7)

5 Could be pains found on shores (7) 9 Country cousin is related to unborn baby (7) 10 Cut short Rover’s appendage (7) 11 Explain quainter prettiness as a cover-up (9)

12 Good affection you can get your hand in with (5)

13 Needn’t have started to be worried when had listening devices (5)

15 Judges that I am going to go into property (9)

16 Fine blade happily could be specified (9) 18 Meet with penultimate desperate cry of pain (5)

21 Cockney dance hall seems a friendly place (5)

22 Reduced image seen in shortest digital fix (9)

24 Half-hearted spelling spells out aromatic plant (7) 26 Loose pieces returned to international organisation (7)

27 Greek hero sees the things and people here now (7)

28 A number seated round where church altar is situated (4,3)

DOWN

1 Go down at naval vessel’s port, for example (7)

2 Goddess of French measurement (7) 3 Desk error shows presence of glacial ridge (5)

4 A number of blowflies are hanging on the wall (to start with, anyway) (3,5,7) 5 Gamble turnover on article on tense movie (4,2,3,6)

6 Twelve months spent in Scottish town (3) 7 Listen to the rest from the man who’s followed by a rabble (4,3)

8 Mends by fusing tragic red loss (7) 12 Hang a mutineer exposing the whole range (5) 14 When boat’s longer hot, it’s drab (5)

16 Tip does get spoilt with what’s put in (7) 17 Volcanic rock found where timber’ s being cut down, we hear (7)

19 Where a cat may flee when original restraint is removed from damaged aperture (2,1,4) 20 It facilitates emergency landing when feature is seen in its surroundings (7) 23 Foundation one’s laid on lowest part (5) 25 Born with no Scottish speech (3)