SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Inner arena where blood is shed (8) 5 University figure rushed out having bubbled over (6)

10 Seem, seen driving around, to be an angel (6,9)

11 Studies on fish beds (7) 12 Took on so before getting married (7) 13 Crowd regrets being held back by health farm workers (8)

15 In a spin about a state (5)

18 Noon? That’s correct (5)

20 Did have a role in charge of teaching (8) 23 Right about Brando, perhaps, being a drawer in the country (7)

25 Gift a political leader may take ill (7)

26 Bearing with couple’s antiquated form of transport (8,3,4)

27 Last nude dance about to finish (6)

28 Was present when a boy hugged nurse (8) 1 Bar Derek before the old get upset (6)

2 Pater’s upset after having sent back bad food (5,4)

3 Athlete’s managers (7) 4 Categorises mum as being in the money and upwardly mobile (5)

6 Top politician shelves election promises (7) 7 Figure eager to follow the Biblical king (5) 8 Scoffing at boy mounting on horseback (8)

9 Judged when a man would be upset about a character (8)

14 Minor fury following nude swimming (5,3) 16 Article worn by Carroll’s girl group (5,4) 17 A little bit soft on a piece of writing (8) 19 Madder, row with a girl (7)

21 Revolutionary lead set by Staffordshire town (7) 22 Kept to the right when in some French backways (6) 24 Broadcast ‘The Way Left’ (5)

25 The growth of machinery (5)