DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Wholesale relocation of bodies is dead of night work (9,5)

9 Speed of the musical work encountered on return (5) 10 Players joined a team only to be dropped (4,5) 11 Back race progression in training grounds (9) 12 Hamper with bread crumbs (5)

13 Buffer of East European royalty (8)

15 Prepared to split vegetable in old Spanish capital (6)

17 Oriental loses lead when behind (6)

19 Accumulate area of land to mow down (8)

22 Tied up and haggard (5) 23 Incited or excited by job in the movies (9)

26 Sport admitted involvement in cash it generated (9)

27 Role model to whelp when impounded at home (3,2)

28 Arrested kin for what was handed down (3,2,3,6)

DOWN

1 Make friends and prosper (3,2)

2 Most take their hats off to a trainee naval officer (7) 3 Call up the second person to hold fair (5)

4 Records quartet in search for novelty (8)

5 Have done with believer adopting son (6)

6 Capital covering outside of home residence (9) 7 Easily broken up if baler breaks down (7)

8 Falling off press? (8) 13 Have friend around, freeing drain of meal (8) 14 Tiger seen wandering in wildlife park (9)

16 Casserole almost cooked with game (8)

18 Breathing tube opening in anterior chambers during heart surgery (7) 20 Individual in church opposed to drink (7) 21 Count on object having caught inside the one that’s hooked (6)

24 Firm rap loosened contents of coconut (5) 25 Quick chilled? (5)

Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Poor relations. 10 Overspend. 11 Swept. 12 Award. 13 Courtship. 15 Hedonist. 16 Quid. 19 Ashy. 20 Tactless. 24 Retaliate. 25 Forte. 26 Extra. 28 Oil tanker. 29 Have a good mind.

Down: 2 Open and shut. 3 Resident. 4 Exercise. 5 Ardour. 6 In situ. 7 Née. 8 Potash. 9 Stupid. 14 House-broken. 17 Waterloo. 18 Stiff-arm 19 Agreed. 21 Shears. 22 Please. 23 Sarong. 27 Tea.