SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Harbinger of spring that strikes a gloomy note? (8)

5 Garment that doesn’t do much for its wearer? (6)

10 Without getting up, nevertheless (15) 11 Say nothing, then say “Screen” (7)

12 Can I do it to be genial? (7)

13 The fish (Chinese) is delightful (8)

15 Put a slug into something a slug finds desirable (5)

18 Salamander a man’s shaken out of the tree (5)

20 Shortens to “a wild bird a long time caged” (8)

23 She’s rented it and I have the key (7) 25 Besides having tea out in London (7) 26 Heavens, why do people become health food addicts? (3,8,4)

27 Enjoy seeing her squirm when the number is slotted in (6)

28 Is their job all go? (8)

DOWN

1 Dismiss with a rising catch, to his consternation (6)

2 All there will be quite safe (9)

3 The British surgeon will tell you how bad the burn is (7)

4 Hear, playing the number prior to it, the composer (5)

6 Making the L silent in “pulse” (7)

7 Caught on a branch as you go up (5)

8 Puts American agents into the sectors (8) 9 One of the less ordinary visitors to our country? (8)

14 Two names that get one raging (2,1,5)

16 In charge of the country? You do exaggerate! (9)

17 Requires and pages (5,3)

19 Up around the first light to get the quotas (7)

21 Possibly a Welsh liner (7)

22 Can’t make up one’s mind about hairdressers? (6)

24 Anyway, try to look up a region in the holiday brochure (5)

25 What the doctor was examining in the furniture shop? (5)