Last week’s Cryptic

ACROSS

1. Vegetable to fill up family? ( 7 )

5. Thanks leader of The Police for trying ( 7 )

9. Attack Californian city and yell (4,3)

10. Cremator’s full ashes container – great service ( 7 )

11. Solve opening clue rapidly, applying cryptic knowledge ( 5 )

12. These shrubs need solar stimulation ( 9 )

13. Holy man dialled emergency for out-of-towner ( 8 )

14. Masked myself in high definition ( 3 )

17. Post Office finally certified whales ( 3 )

18. Tribe monarch makes sword-fighting sounds ( 8 )

22. All good at the moment lorries head off (2,7)

24. Now and then babies sleep in the corridor ( 5 )

25. Rushed to hospital with headless turtle. Sad ending ( 7 )

26. Blasphemous single politician with debts ( 7 )

27. Today I dined to stop craving ( 7 )

28. Depart Dallas outskirts and conclude it’s a blessing! ( 7 )

DOWN

1. Steps around the French castles ( 7 )

2. Sam turned religious and killed ( 9 )

3. Criticising rapping ( 8 )

4. Element of silly ringtone ( 8 )

5. Somewhat bereft of feeling sweet ( 6 )

6. Tennis star dropped five from serve? An upset! ( 6 )

7. Silly Football Club out of finance ( 5 )

8. Outspoken visitor made assumptions ( 7 )

14. Flags down first taxi on 3rd Avenue during freezing rain ( 9 )

15. Fighting for cling-wrapped crematorium remains ( 8 )

16. Me and pup got lost without navigational guide ( 8 )

17. Steals bank code from bottomless wooden box ( 7 )

19. Strangely agreed to keep pole lubricated ( 7 )

20. Little brother left golf with a birdie ( 6 )

21. Waist and bra size in non-metric measurement ( 6 )

23. Sausage makes the most awful noise? ( 5 )