SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Shortens to “Stupid arguments against investing” (9)

6 Damnation! Duck! That means we’ve been spotted! (5)

9 Exercised – one’s vituperative powers? (5) 10 See and chatter foolishly about a girl (9)

11 A man more attentive to ladies than the others on the ship (3-7)

12 Back in the rut, love, from the trip? (4) 14 Stands right back and is holding the case (7)

15 Is it on the parson you’re to pay another call? (7)

17 Needing a rest again stopped working (7) 19 Is holding, and/or arranging, raids (7) 20 Move from the fashionable Chelsea, else a deficit will be seen (4)

22 Near nightfall, only just averted disaster (5,5)

25 Don’t dwell on how you impart the final polish (5,4)

26 When messed about, I go in and complain (5)

27 Ask someone, please, to show you the way to the parking (5)

28 Rising again and moving the tern’s egg inside (9)

DOWN

1 Painting a bird gripping another’s tail (5)

2 A fresh run on paper (9)

3 Tries, as ever, a sound manoeuvre (10) 4 The implements are macabre, man! (7) 5 Stretcher for a wrench (7)

6 When all’s said, it’s a difficult situation (4) 7 Game with a novice, the man has (5)

8 Has an exaggerated idea of a bowler’s speed? (9)

13 Yet row off after the man to a place of retreat (5,5)

14 Finding it’s making one feel quite sick (7,2) 16 Steady, or a bit less wobbly, when I centre it (9)

18 Rescue about fifty-four animals (7)

19 Puts in pictures to cover one side (7)

21 It’s “spicy” with a C, my dear (5) 23 Wonderful to be carrying, again, a gun (5) 24 Given a job by one, you’d probably be an American newspaperman (4)