CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Form in charge of one of the great races (7)

5. One resents their being borne (7)

9. How could lad endure getting washed with the clothing? (9)

10. She will shortly be seen to be shot from a gun (5)

11. Perfect ladies don’t finish, being changeable (5)

12. Fact of being seen around exit with Conservative (9)

13. Explosive egg: tile in pieces (9)

16. A doctor is behind conscription in the States (5)

17. Ship’s repair after fire destroyed top of taffrail (5)

18. Given sack if she makes seafood dainties (9)

20. British cocoa: one cc, about, taken by Italian writer (9)

23. Window one could see from the Loire (5)

25. Knockout given in the fashion of an Australian marsupial (5)

26. The inherent sin in RC, it might be (9)

27. Make out how to rescind it (7)

28. Do up the nut to hit gent like this (7)

DOWN

1. Paying visits may be one’s vocation (7)

2. A quaintly pleasing sort of accent (5)

3. Incidental illumination is put up with great pleasure (9)

4. Do some whittling right inside the antre (5)

5. The heavenly quality that cleanliness is next to (9)

6. Being set up in the wrong order can cause a spill (5)

7. A novice player in defence got for a dollar (9)

8. One shouldn’t sniff at it if able to pay all debts (7)

14. Where students draw models in order to fill cases (4,5)

15. Something one catches if not nice maybe (9)

16. Tampering with the medical profession (9)

17. Told off, one might rue finding king in bed (7)

19. It makes chips one can’t eat (7)

21. Wear a change if knowing what’s going on (5)

22. One of those pieces of eight, etc, to be distributed (5)

24. The smaller picture put in in the collection (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 7. Mathematician 8. Impregnable 12. Parted 14. Saucer

16. Tackle 18. Reduce 19. Compromised 23. Walking sticks

Down: 1. Magi 2. Shop 3. Impend 4. Stands 5. Scab 6. Lake 9. Morocco

10. Lecture 11. True 12. Path 13. Eel 15. Awe 17. Errant 18. Remiss

19. Coat 20. Make 21. Spin 22. Duke