CROSSWORD

Puzzle No 1000

Clues across

1. Old trumpeters (one imagines) cooked most ham after start of meal (8) 5. Intrinsically copper and sulphur turned back into ash (2,4) 10. Stuck around, so they say, being decorous (5) 11. Grow up, end making stuff that goes bang (9) 12. Underrated it by mistake. It’s really reliable (5,3,4) 15. It will provide great warmth if borne with difficulty (7) 16. Forbear making bird in child’s construction set (3,2,2) 18. Rimu perhaps chopped by a child showing disloyalty (7) 20. Set off with former tramp before end of June (7) 21. A declaration turning into a fiction (12) 25. All but two of the cricketers make 180 (9) 26. One bargain is perfect (5) 27. Silent sort is to join Army perhaps (6) 28. Terrible angst with worker becoming stale (8)

Clues down

1. Pulverise mother’s heroin (4) 2. Bloke in love? On the contrary, so indicate your displeasure (4) 3. The Queen has soldier madly running around getting attendants (9) 4. Henry eyeing unusual sanitary arrangement (7) 6. Foil some drowsiness in retrospect (5) 7. Bad odours tend to be accepted (10) 8. Poor rower hopes for applied energy (10) 9. Local drunk, taking last of gin, is available for work if requested (2,4) 13. Tenancies arranged to accommodate bachelor showing self-denial (10) 14. Playing international match at home with almost the entirety of the guts (10) 17. Ignite pot by accident when trying to be quiet (9) 19. Tortilla chips provided on cash settlement (6) 20. Plead for some left-of-centre attention (7) 22. Some of us espied devices for setting off explosions (5) 23. Take a punt on a letter from Athens (4) 24. Aviator drops one in bed (4)