CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Where 11 lives beside American racetrack? (7) 10 Barrel kept in bar, a domed building (7) 11 Primate called wearing unfashionable article (5-4) 12 Spy’s a decent chap (5) 13 Move period of work (5) 14 Politician and artist in defamation case (7) 17 Restraining madman is our job, tangling with menace is not (3,2,5,5) 19 Somewhere in New Zealand daughter listened to radio, missing start (7) 21 Hissy fit as drink’s knocked back (5) 24 Small figure among clique (5) 26 Factory worker achieving speed of sound in back street (9) 27 In the outskirts of Franklin take coffee and squash (7) 28 Cyclist’s trick – excited cry to give false impression (7)

DOWN

1 Notable female, a computer operator mostly (6) 2 Rampaging so in vain attack (8) 3 Put the fear of God into criminal ring the FBI man arrests (10) 4 Interpret excuse for delay when one is lost? (9) 5 High point as stake raised (4) 6 Finish support heading off to foster care (6) 7 Sea creature behaving badly, one hears, left America (8) 9 Grub found in peat soil (4) 15 Bid slacker to work – one perhaps reluctant to do so? (10) 16 Old man eating chicken – sign that could portend prodigious events (9) 17 Causes offence with independent doctor probing lower regions (8) 18 Being frailer, I fired weapon (3,5) 20 New question about supermarket exchange (6) 22 Concentrated and played successful snooker shot (6) 23 Boat company in Cornwall etc. (4) 25 Express disapproval over posh archbishop (4)