SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Perhaps “He’s Nailed,” of an escaped prisoner (9)

6 Frank’s walk? (5)

9 What the local authority takes from one, or gives out (5)

10 Old friends (7,2)

11 Show to be out of place (10)

12 So I hold a hand (4)

14 When in need of a rest again, stopped working (7)

15 The figures first returned reveal the strain (7)

17 Punishment for hiding money that’s hot (7)

19 Side with the Tories dispersing the unruly mob (7)

20 Forwards the cards (4)

22 Took to be preoccupied (10) 25 Unembellished exterior around the core made of earthenware (9)

26 Bring on a dog at one point (5)

27 Got going again when the roofer returned (5)

28 Always enter tottering, accompanied by a friend (9)

DOWN

1 Rainwater is put outside for the animal (5) 2 The way a tiny difference set out to become a dislike (9)

3 When the fish (sprats) swam in some months back (4,6)

4 Want to carry the gun denied to one (7) 5 Starts when the hair’s lost its artificial curl (4,3)

6 Standing drinks on the trip (4)

7 What the Cockney put his suit on, to one’s annoyance (5)

8 Finds exactly what go into the little cushions (3-6)

13 Local acclaim is something new (10) 14 What the bookworm has for dessert? (4,5)

16 A nice lad, it turned out, just the same (9) 18 Include the two that followed me back (7)

19 One went back into the tree, rattled by the train (7)

21 Name the song (5)

23 Blue number I try to rearrange (5)

24 Be better than the other whiskers? (4)