SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 The lawyers were furious when under attack (8)

5 Summer’s creatures (6)

10 Quick to put the boot in? (5,3,7) 11 Vandalises some French cafés, which will need refitting (7)

12 Nice to have dined with the archbishop (7)

13 Here state: “Quiet screen performance by English lead” (8)

15 Figure it’s a rowing boat (5)

18 A fair chance the first woman has to get quarters (5)

20 Supports wrongs thanks to American intervention (8)

23 I marred performance for a fan (7) 25 Miles dances about – so supple (7) 26 Fairly similar rule chatty Mike bent on the quiet (6,4,5)

27 Man, one’s put on weight. Leave off! (6) 28 Gathered Her Majesty’s to break up the garden assembly (8)

DOWN

1 Railman’s spirit (6)

2 Strengthen curb put on the police (9) 3 Insights into a country’s Conservative leadership (7)

4 Some members in nearby town given backing (5)

6 Refuse to go down (7)

7 Rice prepared by a girl (5)

8 Calls to mind jokes schoolmaster first told (8)

9 The captain’s got butterflies (8)

14 Ron’s tum’s settled by medicines (8) 16 Lie about Gordon having trained as a boatman (9)

17 It’s indeed base to have run off (8) 19 Afterthought about ceremonies performed to conjure up spirits (7) 21 Jack’s got Tina dressed to keep dry (7) 22 Rely on some Parisian writer figure (6) 24 Comes across backward character in writing (5)

25 Girl agents at London University (5)

Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: - 1 Straw-hat. 5 Hamper. 9 Condones. 10 Astern. 12 Exempt. 13 Let me see. 15 Grain of sense. 18 Official view. 23 Look over. 24 Recall. 26 Verbal. 27 Makes out. 28 Reeled. 29 Mattress.

Down: - 1 Sachet. 2 Runner. 3 Whopper. 4 Apex. 6 Assumes. 7 Pleasant. 8 Rendered. 11 Revolve. 14 Pirates. 16 Bowl over. 17 Of course. 19 Chorale. 20 Everest. 21 Salome. 22 Slates. 25 Saga.