CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 More appealing modelled

attires (7)

5 Drop police force

by choice (7)

9 Inexperienced peacekeepers

put to the test (7)

10 Cancel a Republican circular (7) 11 Echo of past of showy defence

player (9)

12 Some magnate's latest electric

vehicle (5)

13 Social occasion of first lady and

gentry essentially (5) 15 Standard of behaviour head

teacher announced (9) 17 Promise oddly glum American

organised support (9) 19 Challenged on interrupting

father (5)

22 Gala perhaps that's big in New

York? (5)

23 Exactly the same in dialect,

surprisingly (9)

25 Puffed up as two ill men with

openings gone (7)

26 Swedish group half-heartedly perform songs; it's mortifying! (7)

27 Remote southern bank? (7) 28 Thing to put in order this

evening (7)

DOWN

1 Pig out, finding this food (7) 2 Locate model worried about

uniform (7)

3 Flower on top of hill from

Dublin? (5)

4 Revolutionary vehicle, favourite

for special treatment (3,6) 5 Parking place for taxis to wait is

a joke (5)

6 Continued, strangely

disregarded (9)

7 Coward takes advantage

of work (7) 8 Track round leading lady's

houses? (7)

14 Moved along a course initially

twisted and tangled (9) 16 Fashionable English stage

worker lacking in refinement (9) 17 Drinks finally sozzling girls (7) 18 Think well of a very quiet

ramble (7)

20 Obstacle in golf, swaying from

side to side (7)

21 Joy of ultimately untrained boat crew maintaining lead at first (7)

23 Offender not primarily close to

centre of power (5)

24 Exercise time, then shower? (5)