Crossword

MORE CROSSWORDS IN TABLOID!

ACROSS

1 With opener dismissed, more than one drawing lots (6)

5 Jog by, around border (8) 9 Cursed swindle set up (10) 10 A whip cut, I’m sorry to say (4)

11 Airmen prepared to be caught by US soldier, writing on the wall (8)

12 So I’m not convinced (6) 13 Long bag snipped at both ends (4) 15 Comprehensive done maintaining order, initially (8) 18 Orange tongue (8)

19 Type of rock became hard (4)

21 Little boy after somewhere for bathing suit (6)

23 Great weight is in wood – stagger (8)

25 House party? Murder! (2,2) 26 Muddle bad, go in and ask for cleaner (6,4)

27 Centre is repaired privately (2,6) 28 Finish offering loans, capital spent (6)

DOWN

2 Nothing forbidding in reputation (5)

3 Radical had been sent off? (4-5)

4 Error keeping shed fenced off (4,2)

5 Fraud in equestrian competition? One’s taken to court (9,6)

6 Outsider grounded when misbehaving (8) 7 Measure drunk before a play (5)

8 Stuffed by nobleman, Conservative gets a shiner (4,5)

14 Attempt to suppress principal in Cambridge, light blue (9)

16 Broadcast aired, song in order (9)

17 From pass and save, some goal? (8)

20 Position held by Pakistan, certainly (6)

22 Meeting covering new poet (5)

24 Old transporter in which Irishman carries daughter (5)