SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Is it better than no lazing at all? (4,1,4)

6 A fight, in the book (5) 9 Arrived at a figure for the transport? (5) 10 Enjoying the current permissiveness? (4,2,3) 11 A lot to be said for having an impenetrable cover? (6,4)

12 Move from the place of confinement (4) 14 Diaries showing what very good times people had (7)

15 Turned out to be a wild tit and not blue (7) 17 A reward, say, the child gets for eating its vegetables? (7)

19 I follow the boyfriend outside to intercede (7) 20 The mark of prison (4) 22 He, again, had to get a warning earlier, from the solicitor (10)

25 In accordance with the contract (9)

26 Being responsible for a (and putting round a) fabrication (5) 27 Prescribe something really nice for? (5) 28 Wants to get a label in props (9)

DOWN

1 Writers on “The Equine Gazette”? (5)

2 The boy comes back with heaps of recitations (9)

3 As it should be: brothers to a man (3,2,5) 4 Acts of kindness in getting jobs (7)

5 At a loose end, as I might be in the garden

(7)

6 There’s a strike coming up, comrades (4)

7 Be affected by what the soldiers have done (5)

8 Catch up, on the crest, with the bird (9)

13 A home, for the film (6,4)

14 Unnecessary and turned off (9)

16 It’s logic, as one is playing in an arena (9) 18 Is unsteady, making the rest wobble on the stand (7)

19 The same silly rot is affected by the conductor (7)

21 Sculpt, taking pains, a figure in it (5)

23 Note the seed is to be scattered round the borders (5)

24 Attend and do better than (4)