CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Essential glass container holds tea we’re told (5)

8 Condition that may indicate a haircut’s needed when partners are back together again (5,4)

10 Hard angle created by projecting rim (6) 11 Team gives true account of the stars (8) 12 Kept dark how former students were made better (8)

13 Happening lacks energy at opening (4) 15 Soft malt in wreckage that’s washed up on shore (7)

17 Giving booze to sheep results in coarse fabric (7)

20 Further education limits escalations of charges (4)

22 Sunhat and parasol a topical subject in interior (4,4)

25 Become more flexible when repeatedly roused at night after initial sleep (6,2) 26 Meanattempttomate(6) 27 Isnerdfun?wrong,soremovesfromsocial media list (9) 28 Aromaticplantisfoundinonescottish setting (5)

DOWN

1 Fundamentalist region in which to gird up your loins? (5,4)

2 I hear child’s bed has wooden panelling (8) 3 Set up, ie posed, for incident (7) 4 Impose legal constraint when nuisance is finished (4,4)

5 French denial about continent given by special cell (6)

6 Aides come up with suggestion (5)

9 This man has a right to be in the audience (4) 14 Horse, perhaps being stubborn and impulsive with infantile affliction (5,4) 16 Bees scan swarm for those who aren’t present (8)

18 Be happy with medal being given back when dead (3,5)

19 In the course of one’s work, takes overdose of woodlice etc (7)

21 Hastily re-seat people having a meal (6) 23 Novicesoftwareforscandinavian(4) 24 Notasinglepersonarrivedattwelveo’clock on first evening (2-3)