Wednesday 18 March

Across

8 Halve our shuttle service (8) 9 Appropriate names acquired by a partner in the past (5) 10 Having no end to continental shelf is an advantage (4) 11 Side with health arrangement for capsule protection? (4,6) 12 Accepted company is failing (6) 14 Bent aide put off protecting territorial head (8) 16 Get through Don’s confiscated article (7) 18 Dishevelled, drunk, empty? Dry out! (7) 21 Musical stagehand’s lock retainer (8) 23 Power failure abroad goes on a long time (6) 24 Diagram maker matches its bends (10) 26 Lawyer – southern kind (4) 27 Forced to dispose of top cut (5) 28 Husband: stuffy, with nothing up top (8)

Down

1 King’s is turned by informer (8) 2/5 With which to get into a house, say on the house? (4,4) 3 Sound at heart if at home (6) 4 Scruffy type’s flab spread with age (7) 6 Medic in ground with TNT charge (10) 7 Food shop with cross on top of entrance, elevated and barred (6) 13 Engrave ‘swell’ over end of the combine? (10) 15/17 What can cause a failure to appreciate music? An organ can at first (3,3) 19 Is lip/gum hurt by this activity? (8) 20 Piano makes you elated – just (7) 22 Agreement to link air conditioning with cable (6) 23 Get boat moving with current (6) 25 To collapse after fellow’s gone is not common (4) 26 Fish is brought up by line at depth (4)