SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 One of the elite and most attractive (3,6)

6 Very little difference (5)

9 He brought the two boys together (5)

10 A sea-going marksman who doesn’t drink? (9)

11 Inconveniencing by the eviction (7,3)

12 Be that as it may, she started it (4)

14 Getting in a neat dig I have found to be simplicity itself (7)

15 Put back, nose twitching, out to attack (3,4)

17 Across and with what dexterity and skill! (7)

19 Contacts from outside to say the arena’s been built? (5,2)

20 Informed the man is about fifty (4)

22 Knuckles down and gets the TVs repaired (4,2,4)

25 Dines out with the two, at the end of one’s tether (2,7)

26 She’s the one with the French name (5)

27 Tea on the lawn! (5)

28 Getting angry at being forced to stop driving (6,3)

DOWN

1 He doesn’t have a job, though having a craft (5)

2 Is there one in every jet of water? (5-4)

3 Belt without reason, seemingly (3,4,3)

4 Called Lew out, mad to fight (7)

5 Somehow secures the release of? (7)

6 Close and stamp (4)

7 Grazing land in the mountains (5)

8 Mean, then, to take over the temple (9)

13 Note vibration when the trains run outside. it’s very noisy (10)

14 Having got within range foolishly, Slim had a narrow escape (4,5)

16 I crept through to capture the gunman (9)

18 Vetoes, for a start, the Greeks (7)

19 Put aside the aloofness (7)

21 She’s the one the lady ordered about (5)

23 Said you want to work in a bakery (5)

24 Like the additional information provided on reptiles (4)