SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Also, back in the past, possibly used as a cleaner (5-5)

6 He took the queen before I took the first of the castles (4)

10 Answer to the girl’s, “What did sailors do with it?” (7)

11 Wearing the first cross back to front (7) 12 In awful furies, have hallucinations (3,6) 13 Be prone, for instance, to put in a foreign place name (5)

14 With a step that’s light, I enter (5)

15 Gets trapped in jobs that don’t give rein to one’s abilities (9)

17 “Grant” I had put in and “Grant” it could be (9)

20 Called out and put me through (5) 21 Don’t ignore it, as the soldiers do (5) 23 Having missed badly before, went in and struck (9)

25 Don’t allow, after the amber changes, to respond to the green (7)

26 Is due to break cover (7)

27 Get in the post (4)

28 They’re kept – hanging on? (10)

DOWN

1 Signs the minutes (5)

2 Declining, should he want to turn one out (2,3,4)

3 Hear the description of the tweed (7,7) 4 Agrees the fool was made to go in (7) 5 Shed a tear over the numbers turning to crime (7)

7 Fine with sun again outside when you get together (5)

8 Shortened and altered the end in the second (9)

9 As the competition for “Furnaceman of the Year” was? (5,9)

14 Replace what had excellent growth potential, we’re told (9)

16 Slackening again on the job (9)

18 In the record-book I find a summary (7) 19 Work in a new hotel that’s really excellent (3-4)

22 A brownish-yellow fish swimming (5) 24 Get saucy! (5)