CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Albert’s theory could yet rival it (10)

6. Drug put back into medicaments (4)

10. Giddy-minded state might end: hide the glass! (5-10)

11. Emmet runs off to wed: that’s news, we hear (9)

12. A curious degree in dance (5)

13. Trunk fitted into boot or soft-top (5)

15. Nightmares in almost cubic form (6)

19. The character of a landlord (6)

20. Deem a change to be something dropsical (5)

23. A ship that turns silly (5)

24. Order given with some hesitation by one less than a captain (9)

26. Sort of fat only up for revision when soaked (15)

27. Could rely on adapting an old instrument (4)

28. It holds the wherewithal to draw spice clean out of it (6-4) DOWN 1. Has to depend on rail net-work (7)

2. A tie with real gut I achieve (8)

3. Completely write off the entire amount (5)

4. An opinion as to the best place to admire the scenery (9)

5. Edits out both springs and neaps (5)

7. Face double and ice the off-whites (6)

8. Lose all hope of getting praised for it (7)

9. Is very loveable, but a bad role to play (8)

14. Gain on one for examination and repair (8)

16. Colourful sort of scale that’s accidentally raised (9)

17. Vetted an altered form of blood-feud (8)

18. Perhaps places Latin under the surgeon’s knife (7)

21. How to shorten a game of cards (7)

22. Dusty, a man to accept the grist (6)

24. Social class is, in America, stereotyped (5)

25. It is the second to be rhymed for thirty days (5)