CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Suddenly dropping from sky? (3,2,3,4)

9 One’s amusing letter (9)

10 Seasonal visitor, hill-dweller in South Africa (5)

11 Lack of concern with route passing through outskirts of Aylesbury (6)

12 Ten hours travelling in one direction (8)

13 Perturbation with doctrine in time (6)

15 Ruby, perhaps unexpectedly, gets on with me (8)

18 Remarkable, refusing to work (8)

19 Illegal act on a European peninsula (6)

21 Performances awful it’s clear (8)

23 Conclude ready to cook? (3,3)

26 Cut off silly person (5)

27 Unpleasant behaviour as tennis star’s beginning to flip (9)

28 Everyone attending event after jumping barrier on racecourse (8,4)

DOWN

1 Where fruit grows, or variety of beet (7)

2 Crown, one stolen by a knave, turned over (5)

3 Film memory of flamboyant defender (9)

4 African shelter on base of plateau (4)

5 Far from excited about line taken temporarily (8)

6 Surprising result, winning series (5)

7 Where one waits to see North African volcano from below (8)

8 Snack stuffed in ears! (6)

14 Tidy Christmas tree erected? (6,2)

16 Best people in chant making a lot of noise (9)

17 A joke – monorail? (3-5)

18 Ready to support street band (6)

20 Player at rest, I gathered (7)

22 Lifting action, newspaper? (5)

24 Athenian letter, old and great (5)

25 Wine, some infanta’s tipple (4)