CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3. Clergyman will walk about (5) 8. There’s firm support for modern office equipment (6) 9. Vacation course that’s useful if one wants a rise (6) 10. Heat extra well to make the tart (4) 11. See a smart girl! (10) 12. Finally produced book of maps by end of August (2,4) 13. Extraordinarily timorous Japanese wrestler (8) 16. Making a sorry meal, so to speak (6,6,3) 18. Bizarre time with chat on one particular topic (8) 21. Halfway dry (6) 23. Poor American prizefighter’s down on his luck (because he tripped?) (10) 25. Turncocks in petty disagreement (4) 26. Organism needing oxygen – found in a beer that’s off? (6) 27. Cut close to starboard to reach harbour (6) 28. Parts to give loser a break (5)

DOWN

1. Graduate taken in by pistol made of metal (6) 2. Generous political philosophy (10) 3. It will show the damage in a shop (5,3) 4. Where the tipple comes from at Nick’s party in Surrey? (6,9) 5. Faulty slot machine loses coins in south-east London (6) 6. Scary film featuring rabbits (4) 7. Streaker giving a heavenly performance (6) 12. Very good these days at the point-to-point (5) 14. This should keep one in comfort to some degree (10) 15. With a detached retina – damaged and sluggish (5) 17. Corporation service, a function of weight and height (4,4) 19. Place for rapid growth that’s given blanket coverage? (6) 20. Farm worker who can give guidance (6) 22. Said to have opened right out (6) 24. Terrible fate upset state of mind (4)