CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Warm, bright and the opposite of wintry (10)

6. Hurried south with a hamper (4)

10. I see, for Bach Prom, a failure to carry through the engagement (6,2,7)

11. Repeat repeat? (9)

12. Sorrowful show aster might make (5)

13. It could be imitative of a ship (5)

15. In order to give knowledge I am taking a role (6)

19. Aren’t upset, around five, to find a place to drink (6)

20. Garment kept on to remain cool (5)

23. Court examination can be a troublesome thing (5)

24. Speak profanely and be about to help Sam adjust (9)

26. Lay product is needed for this children’s event (3,3,5,4)

27. Computer character who takes half the children back (4)

28. It’s plain no tat is used where cotton grows (10)

DOWN

1. South of Spain and Portugal, a region far to the east (7)

2. It is timely form of bone marrow inflammation (8)

3. An MC for the toastmaster (5)

4. A double glance at a Kiel development (9)

5. Joke about top end of a low hill in South Africa (5)

7. Original friend is going round the edge (6)

8. How one straightens one’s frocks (7)

9. True sort of punishments such as the rack (8)

14. Principal is to put down on the cape (8)

16. No to a plan devised by a feeble old man (9)

17. The learned may retail it in such a way (8)

18. Sample the sound of raindrops to the north (7)

21. In that, in this place, it’s in the can (7)

22. Ingres had to change for him to give voice (6)

24. The boy in the pesto (5)

25. Happen, naturally, to include a feather (5)