CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Girl seen by meadow and sea that sparkled (7)

5 Be relevant for each volunteer at home (7) 9 Friend in the morning has firm relationship in each new day, for example (7) 10 Hearsay suggests the spirit belongs to us (7)

11 Handed cur over to Wild West vacation station (4,5)

12 Burn to make music at final performance (5) 13 Military dispersal of French crowd (5) 15 Incline to echo remainder that’s most considerate (9)

16 It backfires on one born after WWII, a ne’ erdo-well (9)

18 Confronted engineer involved in craze (5) 21 Lizard soup? (5)

22 Am rousing up someone who doesn’t know any better (9)

24 Poker-faced, passed pot (7)

26 Place tatty suit at second best (7) 27 Lovers can dally and give rise to outraged gossip (7)

28 Hold back return of American expenditure (7)

DOWN

1 Super notice is relative (7)

2 Mad role of mobility in nobility (7) 3 Underage boy heard to go underground (5) 4 Showing devils at the outset are clearheaded (15)

5 First book found under unfinished Greek temple concerned virgin birth (15) 6 Meagre odds returned on battering equipment (3)

7 Some students say no to Scottish mineral (7)

8 We sat on at ease, easy (2,5)

12 Woman left female where women used to fear being left (5) 14 It’s hopeless to change sides at half-time (5) 16 Lives with live-in opponents as well (7) 17 Book in a watersports centre on Japanese island (7)

19 MOD race to act as friend (7) 20 Higher-ranking police officers are inclined to swell (7)

23 Values taxes (5)

25 Starts Pre-raphaelite art design at home (3)