THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1028

ACROSS

1 One with conviction is a popular chum (6)

5 Bishop’s ready to cover everything in cricket? (4,4) 9 Extend tramp’s area of land (8)

10 Governess expected girl to be back (6)

11 Labour scrap? That’s something regularly entertaining us (5,5)

13 Garden feature stood out in leaves (4)

14 Hurt feelings of cricketers in the outfield? (4,4) 16 Some noisy phones in Tube (6) 17 Puzzled Arab tackling crossword setter in big store (6)

19 Inherited engraved gem containing fashionable piece of topaz (4,4) 21 Measure of what decorators use (4) 22 Stop in Bear and Plough, pubs finally protected (10) 24 Run behind beam (6) 25 Old carriage delivered shortly before noon (8) 27 Late arrival replaced me on crew (8) 28 Endless protest on beat, one behind another (6)

DOWN

2 Not entirely conventional name for Monroe (5)

3 Urgent case taken up to some extent in law (3)

4 Former partner, generous model (7) 5 Superior race-goers? (7) 6 Game partners left with calculators (7)

7 Make-up collapsed, couple finally separating (11) 8 Vegetable from chap on leave (9)

12 Put one in the picture about healing (11)

15 Showing no feeling, prisoner grabs Ian roughly (9)

18 Platform used by odd sort in odd surroundings (7)

19 Child on brownish yellow potty (7)

20 Succeeded daily by the sound of it, away from home (4-3) 23 Let pound drop a bit (5) 26 Facts taken from short fellow (3)