CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 House supporting part-time player (4-3)

5 Shock criminal pinching the Queen’s neckwear (7) 9 Graduate wrapping article, current fad (5)

10 After dram, note phone moving irregularly (9)

11 Persist with boil, almost completely coarse (3,7) 12 Chemical element unknown: discounting lead, tin and carbon (4)

14 Stroke and buff item of hardware (9,3)

18 Turning to police, lady acted nonchalantly (6,2.4) 21 Reportedly wished not to have been ignorant (4)

22 Agree about withdrawal’s intricacy (10)

25 Carpet unorthodox at rear in a church (9)

26 Urgency of hard master having no limits (5)

27 Who votes for surrender? (5.2} 28 Wretched orphan bearing old weapon (7) DOWN 1 Indian fare like nothing mother’s served up (6) 2 Cheeky girls from north overcome by cocktails (6) 3 American in Yale intoxicated with posh theatres (10) 4 Content in scout doing best (5) 5 Absolute fan of jazz, say, or disco occasionally (9) 6 Cattle releasing core part of gas (4)

7 Issues from leader in revolt falling {8)

8 Wisdom ofturidsh commander in southern metropolis (8)

13 Completely understand that woman supporting male singer (10)

15 Both sons dismissed this non-stop balding (4,2,3)

16 Father erected a porch after fixing driveway, perhaps (8) 17 Prince informally introduced to monarch an odd-jobber (B) 19 Calamity if climbing rocky coast shaking tons (6) 20 Monster disembowelled both weedy, vile sailors (6)

23 Seat covered in paper chains (5) 24 Boozers regularly disposed of winnings (4)