DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pretty mediocre, just regarding agency (4-2-6) 9 Ken’s new group in parliament (7)

10 Pinniped provided examples of adaptations to marine life (3-4)

11 Well-run exercise makes pantihose fashionable (5,4) 12 Split loop to hold donkey with rope (5)

13 Welcome shower (4) 14 Knucklehead made elk do in Canadian goldfield (8) 18 Main goal is to produce a plant (8)

19 Hold Dame Edna back, to some extent (4)

23 Make light of bolt (5) 25 Meet the end of kitchen table (9)

26 Authorise to put a label on it (7)

27 Vault remains in any state of chaos (7)

28 Firstly assist to reduce the temperature, else he injures his most vulnerable part (8,4)

DOWN

1 Heartless fool niggled young bird (9)

2 Individual units renovated without being moved (2,4) 3 Your old bridges, and so on, to be crossed when cross? (6)

4 Slip on fur and be wrongly put down (8)

5 Time limit given to an epitaph? (8)

6 Employers’ devious ruses (5)

7 Rough out small yacht (6) 8 A wild horse on the beach (6)

15 I make quite an impression with one unit of energy, just the same (9) 16 A bridal shower? (8) 17 Realised nonsense involved the stars (8) 18 Shellfish and brawn, by the sound of it (6)

20 Try arm wrestling and suffer for the cause (6)

21 As once produced in limitless quantities (6) 22 Remedy includes a recipe for poison (6) 24 Overhead point in charge of light (5)