SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Particularly moots change before autumn (4,2,3) 6 Myself and someone treating me to a drink (5) 9 Fight for nothing after the test is lost (3-2) 10 Feeling sane though mad, is not prepared for confinement (9) 11 Coming from S. America, the child took ill in a foreign country (10) 12 Are thrown right back (4) 14 Lines up and gives first aid to (7) 15 Clear out lest one is an irritation (7) 17 Further back, the man twisted the rope around (7) 19 From the cutter, watches out for rocks (7) 20 The way to hold a cane (4) 22 Wrongly, Dave said it had been plundered (10) 25 Experienced, took the below route (9) 26 I spot one entering, the fool! (5) 27 Off we went, after the girl, to see what happened (5) 28 Because really heartless. Truly (9)

DOWN

1 The sum I changed: a number of notes (5) 2 Light from something burning in “9” (3,4,2) 3 Sometimes, when there’s something to celebrate (2,8) 4 Attacks the chump is complaining of (7) 5 Spilled on Al the upset duck fat (7) 6 A low average (4) 7 Ambition that will get you somewhere (5) 8 Looks very different when one throws out the torn lining (9) 13 Say “Journey to the East? Nonsense!” (5,5) 14 Going off a novelty (9) 16 Anyway, it would be most foolish (9) 18 Note the funny steely little things peering at you (7) 19 A man mean right through and tough (7) 21 Put an extra half mile on? Rot! (5) 23 Not plain crazy? (5) 24 Worry so, having gone astray in the forest (4)