Wednesday 19 August

Across

8 Flexible practitioner to support animated character (4,4) 9 Strength from dog shaking off lead (5) 10 Year in Spanish Main’s ending soon (4) 11 Disney princess left queen over trouble in country (2,8) 12 Book that is set in strange land (6) 14 Football team crush defensive formation (8) 16 North Korea’s leader hacking into computer’s digital printing devices (7) 18 Most generous and good of Poirot to make a comeback in case (7) 21 Carriage clock’s face cutting clumsy cleaner (8) 23 Personal assistant admits one form of word blindness (6) 24 Distressed maid in pantry retreating from flying insect (3,7) 26 Heartless bum in prison (4) 27 Hotel California charges old person (5) 28 I mention getting hammered before you can say Jack Robinson (2,2,4)

Down

1 Benny Hill? (8) 2 Hero knocked over nuclear fuel (4) 3 11 stopping Spanish team getting close again (6) 4 Suppose Big Bird’s turning up to support Trump? (7) 5 Mother starts to upset Lily Savage (4) 6 Award sounded crazy for playwright (5,5) 7 Bad-tempered types last to get up for walk (6) 13 Value of New Romantic EP (10) 15 Shot regularly dismissed Ollie Pope (3) 17 Study of depression cut short (3) 19 Swindling trick from man in uniform (4,4) 20 Denis Villeneuve’s right to film movie in US city (7) 22 Chemist replacing parts of large Whopper (6) 23 2 followed by Tesla obliquely (6) 25 Artist trimmed long hair (4) 26 Musical Youth finally escaping from Jaws (4)