CRYPTIC Crossword

✚ Complete the puzzle to reveal two solutions in the shaded squares, relating to the picture clues.

PICTURE CLUES

1ac & 10ac & 23ac

ACROSS

1 The state of the old queen in a series (8)

5 About turn vessels from the fatherland (1-5)

10 & 23ac Cream teas

Mary D got ready for the political lady (5,9)

11 Mobile cry? Cripes! (3-6) 12 Table lore is only just bearable (9)

13 It is used to make a stand?! (3-2)

15 Correspond with the score (5)

17 Lutetium gets thrown away – it was horrible stuff (5)

21 I’d end up to sing without words. Was hot stuff! (5) 23 See 10 Across

25 Moans about rain in the tiny country (3,6)

26 Favourite, Albert returned part of the flower (5) 27 Contract detail for Santa, we hear (6)

28 Olympiads I left to sing religious songs (8)

DOWN

1 Some Volvo, Mitsubishi and Toyotas make you sick (6)

2 Scheduled, she came out for an embrace (6)

3 Alternative French sea for the abalone (5)

4 Lubrication the Italian left out of the hatcher (9)

6 Oxen ocular parts. Are they worth 50 each at the pub? (9)

7 To let you in you need to include a glove, I heard (5)

8 No ego is easy going according to the maxim (6)

9 It may be planted in the street (4)

14 Lad’s day as it was in your youth (5,4)

16 Ridiculous so I left. It was stupid (9)

18 Shy pic makes old medicine (6)

19 A drum beating in the evening or on your arm maybe (6)

20 Playboy loses nothing in the subsidiary action (6)

22 Ray gets a cloak (5)

23 Worshipping some vessel (4)

24 Give Alex Pelsky his marching orders – well, almost (5)