DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 Public vote for an exhibition of workers (4,2,5) 9 In sight of extra time (5) 10 Agreement for business and employee group to squeeze two thousand (9) 11 Hold back in place of grizzly (7)

12 More time around upper class layabout (7)

13 Puts away draughts after taking a nervous sip (8) 15 Threw tantrum when master left to run away from school (6)

18 Some compensation as morning winds up (6) 19 Tape from carton to cordon off crash test (8) 22 Publicity surrounding work ethic of baseballer (7) 24 Ugly American after skin and kangaroo tail (7) 26 Listens during actual reading (9)

27 Group of players returning on web (5) 28 Heated milk satisfied pure dish if left out (11)

DOWN

1 Curse small line of clothing (5)

2 Hard one to mislay while travelling (2,3,4)

3 Took place of hideous decor housing mongrel (8) 4 Unpretentious speaker among the sacred (6) 5 Upcoming run took a turn around island (5) 6 Operation to put small monarch on boat (4,5) 7 Managed to admit goon took it easy (6)

8 Acting out of habit, as was missing from an Austrian production (2,1,3)

14 Harsh workplace is what poses problems (9) 16 Tiredness of overworked hospital doctors (9)

17 Single guy touched up Chloe in the pub (8)

18 Long snake with some venom? (6)

20 Artificial intelligence ultimately swayed star with character in the end (6) 21 Source material for a solitary type (6)

23 Warms up first rounds (5) 25 Endow party when admitted (5)