CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Still cold wearing tartan (6) 5 Stiffener offered by celebrity

before church (6)

10 Spent a million absorbing

language (5)

11 Intended receiver may see a daughter shift ecstasy repeatedly (9)

12 Opinion of meadow, having love

for area (7)

13 Left university doctor with

earlier condition ... (7)

14 ... as long as offering a supply (9) 17 There’s no airs, oddly, in looking

smart (5)

18 Attack messages from the east

(3,2)

19 Charge sat awkwardly – go in

uninvited (9)

21 Makes a pile from garden tools

at home (5,2)

23 Wild child’s last, behind mad

aunt and me (7)

25 Provide safety feature seeing

Formula One getting blame (9) 26 Come together in backing

retinue (5)

27 Analyses for purity when eating

second perhaps (6) 28 Subject of

examination (6)

DOWN

2 Puts up with depression sending

son to the south (5)

3 Reference sees head replaced

by company complicity (9) 4 Cover charge in case of

disappearance (5)

5 View taking in shop window (9) 6 A smile across the length

of ship (5)

7 Country Castro and CIA

transformed (5,4)

8 Second refill – don’t go to bed

yet! (4,2)

9 Live with desire to fit in (6) 15 Unpopular comedic pieces

about Republican fringes (9) 16 Frank is clever, dropping second

of internationals for United (9) 17 Actress troubled about European Union cuts made by these (9)

18 Schism underpinning quiet

confession (6)

20 Hard borders? Avoids making a

decision (6)

22 Colour seen in half of pigs, in the

main (5)

23 Female employed by small task force not meeting required standards (5)

24 State of article

found in pit (5)