DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Spectacle included a final part of the eternal triangle (7)

5 Can rest after unsettling some sleep-like states (7) 9 Call cuckoo after wiping out trees (4-7)

10 Go out and be turned back by the beachfront (3) 11 Freewheels after the start is moved to another place (9)

12 Live alien kept cricket score turning over (5) 13 Thirsty listener lingered outside the hairdresser (7) 15 Currency of short chapter in play (7)

16 Instant loot made via original cocktail (7) 19 Ascribe settlement to Italian city (7)

21 Rolled tobacco for soldier returning in wagon (5) 22 Lacking 4 inches of a secretary’s writing (9)

25 Left glasses in the privy (3)

26 Surface craft since getting into scrapes (11) 27 Retribution seems in order (7)

28 Attempt to house people in Gothic structure (7)

DOWN

1 Fill the bill in a lesser venue (5)

2 Man’s yet to be set free by pardon (7)

3 Nudge run from spin bowler (5)

4 Grave is dead centre over heaving stern (7)

5 Nurse admitted the sick in the final stages (4-3) 6 Cunningly get garage to assemble parts (9)

7 Butcher is hoarding some treasure (7)

8 Groundwork to overturn a streetwalker’s transportation (9)

13 Point in the sentence where monocle is useless (9)

14 Lay to rest before the rise of spotted prisoners (9) 17 Space to be asleep inside wedding party (7)

18 Hours quietly spent in composing verses (7) 19 Carried out hot grub (7) 20 Cup of tea left on the rocks (7)

23 Island nation’s leader appeared in Roman costume (5)

24 Covered in fine particles of sulphur during work (5)