CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Manse, CE, awash with viagra (8) 9 Sweet cheat (6) 10 Throw out Black Panther’s kin (6) 11 Ace T-shirt, say, not worn to church (3-5) 12 Heads sea adventure in light mode of transport (4) 13 Taking turns on a teatime trip (3,2,1,4) 15 Hissed at one a novice finds threedimensional (7) 17 All sides differ in view over Alabama (7) 20 Vie with almost nice skill (10) 22 Sleeps going over bridge (4) 24 Protection for brain given by guys with topless shades (8) 25 Theatre blessed with incumbent having boy’s voice (6) 27 How soldiers spoke of battle for clearing in the rain (6) 28 Damaged pride? I am reformed (8)

DOWN

1 Triumph performing at a city on the Mississippi (6) 2 Fling this down in challenge at lean allowance (8) 3 Enduring quality, being forced to go behind everyone else (4,2,4) 4 Non-believer in roast chicken (7) 5 Resoundingly hit prisoner of war round back of hut, initially (4) 6 Significance of goods inward (6) 7 It’s unbelievable if I’m a person from the Netherlands (8) 14 Record of ECG seen as hero’s welcome feature? (6-4) 16 Degenerative disease of prior age wasting (8) 18 Stay, that is _ eg stays (8) 19 Early Christian displays bizarre costing (7) 21 Hedge to fix after first post established (6) 23 Portable platform assembled with L-plate (6) 25 Strangled cry like doctor adopts (4)