CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. River crossing that was vital to Julius (7)

5. String player might sell it after start of concert (7)

9. Arithmetical aid for a girl moth can supply (9)

10. Sort of car TV? (5)

11. Nothing more than a liquid measure for a piebald horse (5)

12. Somebody wonderful may sail into vision (9)

13. Needs what may be wrapped as in bandages (9)

16. Is old and perhaps financially sound (5)

17. Tom is put out when it’s humid (5)

18. Things put on as I did not turn to them (9)

20. It may be hard, but cling to it as a place for late entertainment (9)

23. It is a regal sort of blue (5)

25. Make an identical copy once about fifty are involved (5)

26. How round he is, and well-fed (9)

27. Breathed without a disturbance as the ship docked (7)

28. Dance for which new hood may be required (7)

DOWN

1. A falling back by the Right, perhaps asleep (7)

2. Start with spirit, and be first (5)

3. To Norm, car may be necessary to get a bird (9)

4. It isn’t the editor that’s well-known (5)

5. When half the commerce was finished, praised it (9)

6. Could almost replace leading medic with a stand-in (5)

7. Embroilment with girl I boom about (9)

8. Given therapy one didn’t have to pay for? (7)

14. Hang the entrance: it shuts by itself (5-4)

15. Hidden ale brought out and given prominence in the newspaper (9)

16. Planet appearing in the East looks gloomy (9)

17. In ABC, I’m sorting out a taxi (7)

19. A youngster caught in sin by this old Sultan (7)

21. It is quite ethical to have gum around them (5)

22. A fleeting encounter with a fox’s tail (5)

24. A boorish lout turning up in Thurso? Oh, aye! (5)