CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

3 Position of company chairman, honest (5, 5)

8 Hit tree in part of garden (6) 9 Special occasion fated, say, to be ruined (5, 3)

10 Plot by criminal standing near church tower (8)

11 Verses accompanying article about south Ukrainian port (6)

12 Car phone malfunctioning in rocky area (4, 4)

15 Style of jacket shown in film shot (7) 17 One might fall for a holidaymaker (7) 19 Megastar performing in coastal town (8) 21 Lure English tourists principally into French resort (6)

25 Lock away wine container at university (6, 2)

26 Doctor keeps small car on a Caribbean island (8)

27 It’s hard, presumably, to be anxious (6) 28 Royal family members in China’s capital, hemmed in by crowds (10)

DOWN

1 Mostly stern and ancient king of England (6)

2 He sits about, producing learned paper (6) 3 A Doctor of Divinity is meeting a couple of graduates in Ethiopian capital (5, 5) 4 Crime of sword fighter? Not right (7) 5 Portion of home-made damson cheese (4) 6 Not prepared to be busy? (2, 3, 3)

7 Back boxing gym for a drop-dead figure? (6)

11 Award for musician named Peterson (5) 13 Canvas shelter letting water in on both sides? That’s ominous (10)

14 Look after a kind of shark (5) 16 European art in USA displayed differently (8)

18 Swimmer with deep singing voice? (3, 4) 20 Leafy glade, place of refuge for east Londoners? (6)

22 Bank cashier who has a tale to relate (6) 23 Vulgar-sounding series of lectures (6) 24 Newly organised Nile shipping company (4)