SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 One has to be quick to keep one’s title (4,4)

5 Floods making one head into the ship (6) 10 Blown off in a film (4,4,3,4)

11 Incline to take a man on a shoot (7) 12 Isn’t forced to be such a fool (7)

13 Out of puff (8)

15 It’s not fashionable to be seen in silk voile (5)

18 Lacking energy to get dressed (5) 20 Son is spy out to get a general view (8) 23 In the end a character shows cunning (7)

25 Serious as a Sterne novel can be (7) 26 In Hull see lawmen drunk as an old lord (7,8)

27 Tender, relatively speaking (6) 28 Suggested the money-making player sat for a portrait (8)

DOWN

1 A member took in the messenger (6)

2 In France I could be a banker, perhaps (9) 3 Drove the prisoner, now a broken reed (7) 4 John’s not backing the Spanish head (5) 6 Continued the journey, say, from town (7) 7 The City Examiner (5)

8 Preparing to mount (8)

9 Tolerate wrongdoing when one acts as deputy (6,2)

14 See about a flower in the wind (8) 16 Quiet – not so much row at the front (9) 17 Reinforces attacks made over the marshlands (8)

19 In off-side position, one may argue (7) 21 Norm cut the vegetable (7)

22 Pen was over-fashioned (6)

24 Comes close to distracting saner characters (5)

25 It may put you out to find the Queen outside (5)