CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Old girl, one getting on, missing out (8)

9 Sequence of individual’s autobiography? (3,2,3)

10 Holiday location – mostly ‘dance island’? (4)

11 Maidens out in winds where snow and ice may be evident? (12)

13 Shop with endless lines in bowls? (8)

15 My covering had to be head cloth (6)

16 Male animal with leg cut (4)

17 Where stone was taken from food item (5)

18 Language of ranter sermonising (4)

20 Line on map leader ignored travelling from place to place (2,4)

21 Leader of men is boss in funny business? (8)

23 Requests for ointments? (12)

26 Facial expression of Greek character, last character in lineup? (4)

27 Home (No. 6) by river – they’ve been asked along (8)

28 Guidance to find cheap accommodation (8)

DOWN

2 Unusual teatimes having most of one sort of food (8)

3 Sporting venue associated with water polo possibly! (8-4)

4 Trendy, on end of street, a Parisian flat? No! (2,4)

5 Nothing these days arrives on time (4)

6 This person, bad, holding firm up? Neither bad nor good (8)

7 Piano composer not the first or last in a native group (4)

8 Go through with soldiers sitting on ‘final’ vehicle (8)

12 Something dramatic not everyone will pick up (5,7)

14 Rage of street men prepared to fight about nothing (5)

16 Occasional crop said to be unreliable (8)

17 Note ascending space vehicle – there’s a rotating mechanism (8)

19 Wholesale activity to remove dirt? (8)

22 Silly jokes about parking in capital city (6)

24 Put surface material on quiet avenue (4)

25 Tails up maybe after this? (4)