CLASSIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Greenlight a show to be broadcast (7)

7 This lawyer can be abrupt in

manner (5)

9 One who might serve you

Whoppers? (4)

10 Drunk at gig punched junkie (4-6) 11 Rubbish English soldier seen by hill, retreating (8)

13 Radio series that goes out at breakfast time (6)

15 Might a room do this if you knock back little drinks? (4)

17 Put up with assistant pinching Bob's bottom? (5)

18 Feeble, but picked up bucket (4) 19 More impending Conservative failure (6)

20 Drink with reporters, but keep it out of the papers? (8)

23 High-class sort of tractor is a hit (10)

26 Female grabbed by rubbish old president (4)

27 Lad in charge of sound (5)

28 Fish men put in a vessel with bits of dill and anchovy (7)

DOWN

1 Man with pet rats ruined several dwellings (10)

2 Bishop seen with group of monks in bed (6)

3 A posh country (4)

4 Old boy that's cold in old bar? (8) 5 Prison is mostly pleasant close to park (4)

6 Is this setter getting work in China? (5)

8 Pigeon enthusiast sat on behind (7)

12 Detectives in audiobook stories (5)

14 Agent helping to secure a compensatory payment (10)

16 Star or pals I sent into a frenzy (7)

17 Oddly, I care for a branch of the military (3,5)

21 Powerful river by temporary shelter (6)

22 One in Chesterfield, perhaps, or a foreign city (5)

24 Kent area to host popular function for mathematicians (4) 25 Singer holds head of Telstar spellbound (4)

ACROSS

1 Yet, but (7)

5 Any bird kept for its eggs and flesh (4)

8 Relating to sight (5)

9 Show in a museum or gallery (7)

11 Enthusiastic (4)

12 Makeover gurus (8)

15 Sign of the zodiac, the

Ram (5)

16 Rag, torment (5)

19 With regret (8)

21 Distance of eight furlongs (4) 23 Master of a ship (7)

25 Drug extracted from a type of poppy (5)

26 Lean and sinewy (4)

27 Flat surfaces on which films are shown (7)

DOWN

2 Buy from an external company (9)

3 Per person (4)

4 Votes into office (6) 5 US crime-fighting body (inits) (3)

6 Middle of the body (5) 7 Outspoken (5)

10 Removed the hard inside stem from (strawberries) (6)

13 Distrust (9)

14 Interstellar cloud of dust and gas (6) 17 Health centre (6)

18 ___ fatale, seductive woman (5) 20 Japanese word used to describe a savoury taste (5)

22 Milkmaid's carrying frame (4) 24 Miniature (3)