DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Shelter may bar members from entering in time (7) 5 Actor to mimic a sailor’s sleeping arrangement (7) 9 Make sport of gorge (5) 10 Set angles out for seafood (9)

11 Follower of hunt is lost in the orient (10)

12 Instruct to wrap front of neck in tie (4)

14 Drive time trimmed by accidental upset (7) 16 Position my radar on part of the ship (7)

18 Diabolical day with a good detail (7)

20 Some empty Greek island 1-across (7)

21 Pivotal bill included the end of cash as currency (4) 22 Beauty shows up without wrinkles (10)

25 Same fluid workings of a rigid social system (9)

26 Not at all nerve-racking (5)

27 Hidings ordered in a row (7)

28 Traveller turned the other cheek before the stern (7)

DOWN

1 Thy crises result in uncontrolled laughter (9) 2 Marsupial way to settle down (5)

3 A little disconcerting to be away playing on greens (3-7)

4 Gets a second wind for driving tests? (7)

5 Sharpen pen to a semblance of uprightness (7)

6 Onset of depression to follow low emotional state (4)

7 Stubborn stain to be moved (9)

8 Massage naked model (5) 13 Slight and misrepresent African lot (10)

15 Mend love with tulip’s limitless perfume (9) 17 Uproar when marmoset failed to accept first of litter (9)

19 Final trespass through block (7)

20 Get wound up by the leader of the services and join forces (5,2)

21 Uses Polish experts (5) 23 Feel vertebrae in the middle of young fish (5) 24 Put down face up (4)

Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Banana republic. 10 Noisy. 11 Extricate. 12 Resembling. 13 Beam. 15 Dimity. 17 Behemoth. 20 Gulliver. 21 Lead on. 23 Duds. 24 Acrobatics. 27 Chameleon. 28 Therm. 20 Slap on the wrist.

Down: 2 Amiss. 3 Asymmetric. 4 Age-old. 5 Extended. 6 Unit. 7 Leasehold. 8 Cream. 9 Infra dig. 14 Benefactor. 16 Melodrama. 18 Handsome. 10 Teachest. 22 Pounce. 23 Ducks. 25 Items. 26 Veto.