CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Authority on courses in for training (11) 9 Customs may see performance cutting costs (9) 10 Drama seen in Europe rarely (5) 11 Shakespeare's world could be this pink (6) 12 Women must have a way with liquid fuel being uneconomical (8) 13 L. S. Lowry occasionally chanced sweet course (6) 15 Little indication of sadness? (8) 18 Some foreign aid is bought back as result of volcanic activity (8) 19 Plant a bulb with no end of soil (6) 21 Mock, eating one's hot and cold food (4,4) 23 Tastes discovered by sailors at the back (6) 26 A look that inwardly may be a greeting (5) 27 Sleep sees the brain changing shape, ultimately (9) 28 Mammal seeing reptile slip off (11)

DOWN

1 Ample evidence of debt impounded by police (7) 2 Comes close to being under arrest, regularly (5) 3 Those people after working with purpose must be improving (2,3,4) 4 Rifle fire (4) 5 Bound to find European in unexpected need (8) 6 Settle on tubers, twisted at the end (5) 7 Marine food concession may welcome visit (7) 8 Salt produced by burn covering food (8) 14 Current device succeeded in dispersing rioters (8) 16 Doctor gets air circulating between runs (9) 17 Skip following lectures and discuss business (4,4) 18 On holiday, writing becomes casual (7) 20 Gather religious establishment mostly suppresses ecstasy (7) 22 Vice seen in cold light (5) 24 Correspondence making half of them sicken (5) 25 Goes out seeing poor babe's missing area (4)