CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Stops minor that's brought back

drink (5,2)

5 Provide workers to others, a fine

firm's leader (7)

9 Beware entertaining Romeo's

desire (5)

10 Shoe part's one in pack Helena

ordered (5,4)

11 Great home, inspector having

decorated outside (10)

12 Called and spoke (4)

14 Casually left inside nanny with cloth and a potty (12)

18 Romance story's

trendy (12)

21 Gollum losing ring alongside

lake becoming sad (4) 22 Trader's quiet with little

time to keep in touch (10) 25 Focus! Impressive starter not

totally finished (9)

26 Divine images one sold

fraudulently (5)

27 Pitcher starts to tip, hampering one moving vessel (7)

28 Excellent, fast to accept male's

complaint (7)

DOWN

1 Cheating of French clubs,

couple from the south (6)

2 A fellow taking in Australia

going up river (6)

3 Depot's base redeployed to

create crafts (10)

4 Shelled open, container

for nut (5)

5 Refutations about Capone, maybe, intercepting gun parts (9)

6 Give son something to write

with (4)

7 Correspond after a fourth

letter? OK (8)

8 Dupes men with no exception –

female being superior (4,4) 13 Cleaning from New Year's Day to year's end, it all gets scrubbed regularly (10)

15 Rich sort prepared to host

English singer (9)

16 Split up following business meeting to cut tenancy cost (8)

17 Processed crude oil becomes

more murky (8)

19 Take no notice of some hangeron, giving up (6)

20 Name missing from gift

organised in advance (6) 23 Scavenger hunt's beginning

with the old rejected article (5) 24 Beastly cry from yours truly:

`That hurt!' (4)