CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 In bed is not as fortunate (7) 5 Opt out in closed event (4,3) 9 Defeat hearing defect (5) 10 Society member hears about bishop and valet (9) 11 Confirmed international tariff will include new event (10) 12 Time in charge is fair (4) 14 Pants perhaps turned German off (12) 18 Plan to go and get X-ray set – it needs reordering (4,8) 21 Manage temperature for a little one (4) 22 Out of bed and suffering – honest (10) 25 Powerless, being suspended by radio operator (9) 26 Silly relation taken in by hollow invective (5) 27 Hurried returns deserve recount (7) 28 Errs badly about reversing charge for jackets (7)

DOWN

1 Research scientist leaving home after end of job (6) 2 Slowly change and pass on responsibility, ignoring leader (6) 3 Examine small metal container

during voyage at sea (10) 4 Try to prevent grazing animals

crossing top of track (5) 5 Second family? Mean with

money and very clingy (4-5) 6 Love women with education to

be outstanding (4) 7 Indulged in crazy pipe dream

with no source of income (8) 8 Touching lines created by blokes under effect of the sun (8) 13 Be providing protection for

mobile training vessel (10) 15 EU partner’s terrible entrance

(9) 16 Beat one’s opponents crossing ground, but become less convincing (4,4) 17 Unsuitable name, ‘Scrooge’,

when hoarding no millions (8) 19 Cover up a case of these and expand (6) 20 Fliers, for example, and engineers test regularly (6) 23 Cat and dog ultimately in row (5) 24 Mountain within borders of

Vietnam (4)