CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Find a total lack of activity in a nudist camp

(4,7,2)

10 Show with exaggeration the result of

redecorating (9)

11 A thin silk fabric might be flat as a pancake

(5)

12 Managed to enter at the end, but had to beg

forit(7)

13 Staff had time to get a warrant (7)

14 Like a bird of prey that's blinking stupid (6)

16 I mull over one form of floor covering (8)

18 Wrong farm animal used to guide better (8)

20 Place of confinement for first rebel clapped

in irons (6)

23 Mixed dish of meat and vegetables is hard

to turn into a drug (7)

24 Show due deference in a place where some

spectators gather (7)

26 At no time run into the middle, even with

cool courage (5)

27 Passes information on to a superior officer

(7,2)

28 Advanced, yet again, to a higher station, in

area ripe for more buildings (13)

Down

2 Have to be wide-awake to get a drink, right

at the end (5)

3 Did an old flame iron things out, on paper (7)

4 Work with one, at the end, to produce a drug

(6)

5 I'm turning a lathe to deal with hostile letters

(4,4)

6 Is a small number able to act? It's not

possible (2,3,2)

7 Start to cater for sergeants, say. It's causing

confusion (4,1,4)

8 Arrive at empty theatre when it peters out

(4,2,7)

9 Prevent man getting to one race, showing

strong resolve (13)

15 It's time to reel out small growth of a

legendary plant (5,4)

17 Told to look at PE apparatus, in the main ...

(8)

19 ... ancient transport using three banks, in

the main (7)

21 Suitable platform for a politician, at some

stage (7)

22 Move to port, although too much for some

players (6) 25 Is it essential to start out from a German

city? (5)