CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Feline going up a mountain? No, a tree (7) 5 Encompassing bite man suffered (7) 9 A coach I have found to be extremely offensive (7) 10 Expose cereal planted on rock formation (7) 11 Showing no emotion at injection into deadlock (9) 12 Trim fruit (5) 13 Turnout to rise (3-2) 15 A dumb listener gets a clout (1,5,3) 16 Chap tired out, finds it costs next to nothing (4,5) 18 He cries half-heartedly, becoming grave (5) 21 Be flying high about new underwater equipment, while ... (5) 22 ... spirits manage another kind (9) 24 Sedative old man’s given to girl getting married (7) 26 Concrete used for make shift carpets (7) 27 Old guys use sound effects at Yellowstone attractions (7) 28 Russian writer returns with opening of plaything (7)

DOWN

1 Doing housework at Glasgow Cross? (7) 2 Proclaim president and French associate (7) 3 Source of procreation slightly misplaced in beastly kings (5) 4 Convenient way to pay for trip on Amtrak, say (8,7) 5 Where head’s at risk over the soldier’s favourite (5,3,7) 6 Data unit I use in communications company (3) 7 On the way to enter (hopefully) Oxford University Union (2,5) 8 Best clothes to wear on motoring programme? (3,4) 12 Is out of breath and short of energy with speech impediment (5) 14 Go over and over the chief points of horse (5) 16 Bad gust scattered contents of vacuumcleaner store (4,3) 17 Delivery price initially expected by children’s author (7) 19 Lad and his mother’s sister are united in being optimistic (7) 20 Spacecraft’ s return involves stamping on hand, perhaps (2-5) 23 Grow as well as stowaway (5) 25 Nigerian city provided vet centre (3)