LONDON TIMES CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across
1 Small biting insect or mite, perhaps (6)
5 Piece of key informant’s confession? (6) 9 Being beyond reproach, you won’t get beef from her! (6,3) 10 European staff (4) 11 Maiden pursued for information in hearing (6) 12 Afewmen enthralled by combination of rings? (3,2,3) 14 Rubbly waste ground is rutted (8)
16 It’s wet and windy in North Yorkshire (4) 18 Army entertainer? (4)
19 Do a duet badly with tenor that’s past it? (8) 21 European Society welcomed by Bojo in his schooldays? (8)
22 Wife taken in by Romeo with a place abroad (6) 24 Where one might see Tommy eating pickle (4) 26 Hip-hop dude holds topped veg for street vendor (6,3)
27 Having obtained plug, ask for plug — ultimately one’s no good! (3,3) 28 Bullfighter involved in store robbery (6)
Down
2 Naughty movie is such rubbish (11) 3 Love love love? (5)
4 He and I are two guys into remoulding steel (8)
5 One who’ll deliverover in Derby (6) 6 Paramount head nervous about a star collapsing (9) 7 Before heading to Leeds, look here for fuel? (3) 8 Possible result of The Donald getting in via The Bush? (6,7) 13 What might befound byduo working together at sink? (6-5) 15 After stampeding, our steers turned up in the end (9) 17 Go off the best solicitor in the business? (5,3) 20 Itemsubject to inflation following a crash (6) 23 Woman that could slow traffic? (5) 25 Timeis, for more than one person, up (3)