Times Crossword

Across

1 Maybe wing of hospital is facing the early sun (9) 6 Quarrel about right fish (5)

9 Two people taking month for construction in Italy (5)

10 Physicist holding out to get Rutherford’s head designer (9)

11 Popular jazz style introducing a prelude (7) 12 Terminated agent having taken a lot in (7)

13 Inn may have done this ordering a red tablecloth (6,2,3,3)

17 Tense and concise statement of Pollyanna’s views? (7,7)

21 Scenery material overturned — the cause of Hamlet’s death (7)

23 What’s bad for PC behaviour? Pray we and society reform (7)

25 Joys people mostly somehow got in casual wear (6,3)

26 A day in the last month of age (5)

27 Reliable? It doesn’t start, impaired by neglect (5) 28 Large bottle’s risk after spicy dish? Finish off both (9)

Down

1 Uncanny, the Spanish doctor suppressing skin irritation (8)

2 Rabbit taking vegetable — not rabbit’s first (5)

3 Herb goes courting, embracing David

North (4,5)

4 Are singers in Queen film to get back in Top Twenty? (7)

5 Bar quite regularly brought in offer to buy a round (4,3)

6 Thus regularly take to cook in marinade (5) 7 Control plane over top of errant balloon again (9) 8 Angry speech one used in exchange (6)

14 Nature of theft is so unclear, unfortunately (9) 15 One’s sent off for this description of Aquae Sulis? (5,4)

16 Witness a time trial with stripped down Ford (8) 18 Sweetheart’s in resetting bones for some cosmetic surgery (4,3)

19 Solo dance is out of fashion you feel at the end (3,4)

20 More immediate Conservative failure (6) 22 Ends with boy finally drunk (5)

24 Italian region mostly down by river is humming (5)