Crossword MORE CROSSWORDS IN TABLOID!

ACROSS

1 Authority makes you cross, regularly sick inside (6)

5 One girl carrying another across river in small country (8)

9 Element having game in shop repeatedly troublesome (10)

10 Support player playing after break from game? (4)

11 Provider of weaponry in a group of jolly types accompanying our monarch (8)

12 Really enjoy school subject? Latin initially is hard! (6)

13 Too critical, sometimes putting many characters off (4)

15 Fellow who sang funny songs somewhere in Belgium (8)

18 Be twitching with everyone joining in, as befits some dancing (8)

19 Army officer preceding English king noted for merriment (4)

21 Fear a bishop, sadly lacking first sign of saintliness (6)

23 A target’s hit in sporting events (8) 25 Sportingly deliver sporting trophy? (4)

26 Excursion by lake has Heather gibbering (10) 27 Timely message about bodyguard (8)

28 No return for one? (6)

DOWN

2 Guide employer around hospital (5)

3 Actor so out of sorts, endlessly unwell – medicine needed (6,3)

4 Call on old lover, animated about end of affair (6)

5 A rarer critic troubled about RAF provision for planes (8-7)

6 Tapestry hung upside down in amateur operation – chaos! (8)

7 Staggering movement to capture British revolutionary (5)

8 Up a sort of tree, cat learns to jump (9)

14 See son in domestic party being horrible (9)

16 Learner in ridiculously hot dance that requires much athleticism (9) 17 Somewhere near Fleet Street, editor is left behind (8) 20 A grassy area cut – first requirement for Saturday matches (6)

22 Time to tuck into island dish (5)

24 Cast aside yearbook, having ignored the second article (5)