Crossword

ACROSS 1 Improvised score (7)

5 Rejects diamonds one store initially has (7)

9 Permitted to leave starter that’s horrible (5)

10 Hardworking animal in front of one couple and us (9)

11 Retreats as a spider moves around quietly (10)

12 Country clubs with upbeat, odd characters only (4)

14 Commotion after prisoners start to trash building (12)

18 Rabbit from South Africa held by neophyte by one leg (12)

21 Uproar following love for god (4)

22 Hurricanes perhaps advanced over Naples – worried? Not very (10)

25 Ignored note and chose to swallow gallons (9) 26 Nothing sinister about tree (5)

27 Unhappy Democrat was the first charged (7)

28 Are spectators concealing esteem? (7)

DOWN

1 Reticent to eat and drink (6)

2 Rubbish match official regularly guesses (6)

3 Calls doctor then elopes (10)

4 Gasp she gave with leaders departing (5)

5 Turn one’s back on sailor lifting soldier (6,3)

6 Team groaned out loud (4)

7 Shrewdness to capture terrible hound? It could be a Sherlock Holmes case (8)

8 Mark’s following upset American bears (8)

13 Invalid so blotchy, so optometrist finally abandoned pupils (10)

15 Felt small craft cut speed (9)

16 A chapter includes stories (8)

17 What broken door might be – off the wall! (8)

19 Anger after hospital department’s full (6)

20 A son exercises before court appearance (6)

23 Stranger’s daughter in river (5)

24 Orville Wright keeps up satisfactorily (4)