The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
1 Chatty raven’s location changed (14)
9 Complete nonsense as work schedules (5)
10 Adaptable French poetry on a slab (9)
11 Less beefy article right outside tavern (7)
12 Cases – one may hold fruit (7)
13 Tube in cup, I perceive (4)
14 Four trapped in deadlock, unemotional (9)
18 Ten pence I broke, causing self-reproach (9)
20 Not initially useful fellow (4)
22 Rationing, where shilling going fast (7)
25 Cost said to be an unspecified amount (7)
26 Plain shape around end (9)
27 Price offered for a Spanish holiday region (5)
28 Tenant’s despair over drug (14)
DOWN
1 A treatment initially brought in to heal clergyman (6)
2 Sustenance from fruit – without it iron’s deficient (9)
3 German city has this French part that’s vital (7)
4 Monarch is veering so wildly (9)
5 Pulse in broth, stewed (5)
6 Love mountains of fruit (7)
7 Name a consumer said (5)
8 Extreme note cut off (7)
15 Person making a false claim before the final bid (9)
16 One’s in India or another place (9)
17 Work – outstanding amount for a small creature (7)
19 Fall over on spilt oil in city (7)
20 Loudly kissed buffoon’s exterior features (7)
21 Leave some inside
participating (6)
23 Old Ottoman leader elected a second time (5)
24 Richard embraces northern style (5)
ACROSS
1 Attack, criticise (4,1,3,2)
8 Just, proper (5)
9 Longed (7)
10 Style (hair) to give a tousled look (7)
11 ___ Cox, TV science professor (5)
12 Worker in a skilled trade (9)
15 Eliminating rounds in a race (5)
17 Amelia ___, first woman to fly the Atlantic solo (7)
19 Parent’s father (7)
20 Cut up a joint of meat (5)
21 Abrasive nail-smoother (5,5)
DOWN
2 Irate emotion (5)
3 Ex-soviet Baltic country (7)
4 Counselling as a treatment for mental disorder (13)
5 Back-up strategy (4,1)
6 Degree of tautness (7)
7 Old Testament garden (4)
8 Put in jeopardy (4)
12 Piece of ridiculous pretence (7)
13 Country bordering Algeria (7)
14 UK share index (inits) (4)
15 ___ Bonneville, Downton Abbey actor (4)
16 Grass-like swamp plant (5)
18 Clothes-drying frame (5)