SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Make idiot finance it

with credentials (14)

9 Speed-setter to

summarise return (5) 10 Woolly mice Peri’s

beaten! (9)

11 Nurse, that woman

one’s seen in church (7) 12 Asian dish and lots

from north (7)

13 Manage to swing

last step (4)

14 Twelve dozen in dire

need were rapt (9)

18 Hundred Russians

around wild flower (9) 20 Arrange to be kind (4) 22 Eastern nations’

landed properties (7) 25 Extraordinary price, about a pound a copy (7)

26 Devised by Hugh to

put aside (7,2)

27 Praise when former

road tax cut short (5) 28 Here’s worst food served up at Robin Hood’s hideout (8,6)

DOWN

1 One politician wants bill to have a marked effect (6)

2 Poor Rex accepted payment for the funds (9)

3 Rotating vessel amid

sound of bell (7)

4 Alarms legal entitlement in English marshy area (9)

5 Poultry wearing hat? (5) 6 Lot more confused by

the musical effect (7)

7 Bay window in

Oxford College (5)

8 Disease ravaged

resort (7)

15 Mollusc displaying

a temper in divinity (9) 16 Vet tries out English

protection for diner (9) 17 Thorough little section absorbed by trendy hospital (2-5)

19 Number, for instance,

in Bury (7)

20 Drink more rum with

all-powerful leader (7) 21 Vote to return after

dance (6)

23 In addition, the

tailless canine (5)

24 Arranged to fight (3,2)