CROSSWORD

Clues across

8. A blade to chop the top off the art deco centre: right on (6) 9. Shrub supplied by dealer on order (8) 10. Real art I destroyed bringing in fresh blood (8) 11. Terrible liar grabs one before day’s end in a flippant manner (6) 12. Outmoded young man tells another (6,2) 13. A table on a ship (6) 14. European bears in trouble (7) 17. One day you see someone enjoy your beginnings in an amazing adventure (7) 20. Cool beverage, the result of some public service teamwork (3,3) 22. Major church built from boron, argon and natural glass (8) 25. Testy narcotics agent briefly returns to the bluegrass state (6) 26. A cursory examination shows there’s nothing satisfactory in a soul mate (4-4) 27. Royal roles that lack gravity in family connections (8) 28. John A – socialist – gazed suggestively (6)

Clues down

1. Distinguished poet puts nitrogen fertiliser in tardily (8) 2. Trampers shriek in commotion (6) 3. Some of the smarmiest hosts (6) 4. Hood, a provider of dairy food and seafood (7) 5. Unusual idea: gall can yield financial assistance for a fraudster when caught (5,3) 6. Monroe is upset by America being so very large (8) 7. Drug pedlar, one giving a hand in the casino (6) 15. Head of Britomart Station rebuild is a biologist (8) 16. At bottom Yankee and NZ spies provide scrutiny (8) 18. Shunned getting cheesed off about wife (8) 19. Boil has burst? Get rid of it (7) 21. Commanding officer rules beginning with American soldiers’ dogs (6) 23. Impaired pilots? (6) 24. No-hoper hugs love, becoming more relaxed (6)