DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 Be prepared for treachery from the timepiece you have returned (5,4,4) 10 Disgust pitcher to be run around by big shot (4,3) 11 Run on quietly with noisemaker (7) 12 In favour of a happy ending to raid (5) 13 Commanding officer was deprived of liquor, it’s mother’s milk to us! (9) 14 Sunder land’s third river (6) 16 Press on though rawboned and ragged (4,4) 19 Off-the-cuff speaker might be ribald in parts (2-6) 20 System of weights where it’s a crime to work with tons? (6) 23 Europeans with a cast iron constitution (9) 25 Smaller number of sheep held by father (5) 26 Decided what troubles receded (7) 27 First placing for Norman in endurance contest (4,3) 28 Shading a short incubation? (13)

DOWN

2 Arrive late, endlessly frazzled by flight (3,6) 3 Close friend of Reagan enters city limits (5) 4 Agency not operating with trimmer policemen (6) 5 Prickly pears lie flat against the wall (8) 6 Restaurant money on Great Lake (9) 7 Take sides in motor supply (5) 8 Furnishes hands with rods (6) 9 European central bank followed bug (6) 15 Spreads again as defendants (9) 17 Was no more trouble for some rowers (9) 18 Lynn given hand to dismantle part of a house (8) 19 Cultivated a cedar covered street (6) 21 Loving California band (6) 22 Awfully tartish to take off a piece of clothing (1-5) 24 Video terminal’s permanent mark on film award (5) 25 Outside of fermenter blowing hot bubbles (5)