CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 He stands in the wings, being more likely to be on time (8) 9 Wavers, doesn’t start, changes course (6) 10 French boy has sugar consumption wrapped up (6) 11 Pleased to have left out social butterfly (8) 12 Girl who is opposed to age (4) 13 Fellow presents ribs at casualty department in English city (10) 15 Former pupil writes poem about The Other Side (7) 17 It doesn’t matter if you add a penny – it’s completed (3,4) 20 Uncertainty could be his genre when uncertain (10) 22 Heard to have made sideways movement in diplomacy (4) 24 Cat’s diet ingredients subjected to definitive trial (4,4) 26 A boat seen on loch in Central Belt town (6) 27 Each to take a shift supervising refreshment facility (3,3) 28 Nets girl puts around hair arrangements (8)

DOWN

1 Oil with gross facility (6) 2 Came back to see what one consumed so as to waste away (8) 3 Toss one man dangerously when he’s in to rock craft (5,5) 4 Lecturers put on student prank with mythical creatures (7) 5 Remunerated personal assistant at head of intelligence department (4) 6 Artist makes shortened pieces, they say (6) 7 German woman teased in earful (8) 14 Chopper prepares to end flight on German’s archipelago (10) 16 Makes an opening, we hear, in trousers (8)

18 Perform with excitement, in fond est manner (8) 19 In expert urbanite concealed worry (7) 21 Son gets over hatred of salt ingredient (6) 23 They indicate some thing’ s missing in welfare of toddlers outside (6) 25 Spurious Dame gets back into band entertainment (4)