Crossword

MORE CROSSWORDS IN TABLOID!

ACROSS 1 A group not bothered about chaps leaving (11)

9 Soft rock gets Blair in a lather? (9) 10 Supporter: ‘Five-nil? Well done!’ (5)

11 Piece on board that is green (6)

12 Important friend facing hearing when leader quits (8) 13 Shark served with last of salad was tender (6)

15 Being tactile could be moving (8)

18 Authorise punitive measure (8)

19 Slough needs men in service (6)

21 One picking holes in fancy cake and tart (8)

23 End exercise to seize power in French town (6)

26 Dope from China going to Portugal (5)

27 Adult you and I hit is stunned (9) 28 Not reliable, sadly, and beyond the pale (11)

DOWN

1 Out-of-place athlete? (4-3) 2 Warning having lost right old battle (5)

3 Rebel Democrat insisted on change? (9)

4 Without agreement, retreat (4)

5 Lift to reveal changes (8) 6 Board rebel battleship, partly capsized (5)

7 Kick member appearing as pirate (7)

8 Simple article about the Italian church (8)

14 Call on faithful to stand up (4,4)

16 Singer first to be seen in piece of work by Queen (9) 17 Promise made by witches over a set of religious books (8) 18 Some sense ancestors – at these? (7)

20 Spot what hen does in case of small eggs, initially (7)

22 Endless piracy ruined island (5)

24 Kind of line that’s fruity, we hear (5)

25 Do business in Kent town (4)