SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 So we wandered in through the backdoor, from the forest (8)

5 Won’t go down and choke (4,2)

10 He’s left on the same plane as the other, it would seem (6,9)

11 Put back into one’s keeping anew, attack (3,4)

12 Shuffles for one kid and the rest shuffle themselves (7)

13 He’ll show you the way to become a boss (8)

15 Put out when you actually put it into practice (5)

18 Nowadays the chaps go inside to change (5)

20 Pass the mistake that results in caving in (8)

23 Does one’s best, but the vest is ripped right through (7)

25 Gather a bed-room must be put back in (7)

26 Be on the mat, then immerse yourself in the bath (3,4,3,5)

27 The sort of person one would take pains to please (6)

28 If you can do with a smaller quantity, it’s superfluous (8)

DOWN

1 Jib when it comes to cast-offs (6)

2 It gets a look in only when there’s a game (9)

3 Within a minute, the band appears and there’s a cheer (7)

4 Stupidly, one catches a foot in it time and again (5)

6 Prescribed for and bought for (7)

7 Food is something you’d be dead without (5)

8 With the ghost given up, or the spirit sent forth (8)

9 A poem from the old days, by Goldman (8)

14 Those who give it their patronage are in the minority (4-4)

16 When the sun is out and there’s warmth, he will draw (9)

17 It would be wise to go round by the corridors (8)

19 Hopes to get well (7)

21 Granted that nobody had satisfied one (7)

22 Put back the street light first and one is surprised (6)

24 Blushing at being caught, was vituperative (5)

25 Figure nothing makes apple-pie taste better (5)