CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Old piece from the quaint East (7)

5. Preserves lambs frolicking with me (7)

9. I am put in a bed and engrafted (9)

10. Rackets are inclined to be seen in the road (5)

11. The neatness of the bath, say, when capitalised (5)

12. Hope country air – a turn one is given of it (9)

13. Turns tapas into an hors d’oeuvre from Italy (9)

16. Material one can get stain out of (5)

17. Backs out of one’s area to wipe it out (5)

18. In America beg for something to lift pot by (9)

20. One who looks after count said it was different (9)

23. Assumed an attitude as the question was asked (5)

25. One follows sumo, strangely, in Finland (5)

26. With two classes above, it is of poor quality (5-4)

27. A précis, one is told, of what one expects February to be (7)

28. May be sensing how flags stand for nations and regiments

(7)

DOWN

1. State it made Oz Arian (7)

2. Wrote in a mechanical sort of way (5)

3. Make double double (9)

4. Register how one will appear on stage (5)

5. I wondered about how it could be put on the bed (9)

6. Military cap raised in salute rebelliously (5)

7. Having bonded layers, the main delta is constructed (9)

8. To keep up with the USA isn’t possible (7)

14. Give a makeover to farms torn out of it (9)

15. False reasoning (p.s: history is made up of it) (9)

16. Wild runs team’s sped to achieve (9)

17. Lets one off with reasons for not doing it (7)

19. Though it never stops it will finish up diminished (7)

21. Like one in six sheep? Just the opposite! (5)

22. One is upset by the din (5)

24. It’s not proper language first Scots long to use (5)