SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Specify plan with new order for tea (9) 6 Philosopher possibly saved and brought home? (5)

9 Persuade one to appear in a film (5) 10 Willingly permit to remain uncultivated (3,6) 11 Gets the series done, anyhow, with increasing speed (10)

12 Before coming out of Indian territory (4) 14 Say loudly it’s how to get the workers to strike (4,3)

15 They won’t presumably be used for the rest of the night (3-4)

17 Stating it’s beside the point they’re proverbs (7)

19 To do so will inflate one’s earnings but could make OAP very upset (7)

20 They may be changed at a break in the play (4)

22 Racket created by struggle with painter (10) 25 A chap from Ulster or the mountains in the sultanate (9)

26 How to make fun of the said consumer gettogethers (5)

27 Not a member of the West Country fauna! (5)

28 Renewed appearance of curious green rust (9)

DOWN

1 Author is terribly amused, point out (5) 2 Break links with a confederate separately (9) 3 EEC unit of account is new to a poet (5,5) 4 Disorder turns out to be mental one (7)

5 Men are indeed wrongly corrected (7) 6 Magistrate coming to the point (4)

7 He’s able to make money – about a pound (5)

8 State of a freshly knitted one? (3,6) 13 Compositor is kind to dog (10)

14 Awful scares – Leo’s cooked the stew! (9) 16 Providing new ponies on time is secret service work (9)

18 He pretends old Bob has got the tool (7) 19 Got us in to arrange the trips (7) 21 Sensational happening in a Greek town (5) 23 Chosen from among the lecturers (5) 24 Elderly tragedian’s contribution (4)