Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 06/09/12

ACROSS

8 Recount new composition of night music (8)

9 Correspond to the value of a racehorse (6)

10 Was congregation wrong to blow things up? (3,3)

11 Hold back from strong position (8)

12 Vital spirit sent out under licence, initially (4)

13 Chip in for 17 across testimonial (10)

15 Hundreds upset without new tremor (7)

17 Is at cross-purposes with a General Assembly, in a way (7)

20 Bid farewell to soldiers, at last, in field of action (10)

22 Sally had to get back over square (4)

24 Extent of failure to reach a set target by attendant, after 27 across (8)

26 Restricted, but managed to get back on line (6)

27 Get away from the south-east, up to a point (6)

28 Appropriate to eat local produce (8)

DOWN

1 Go before warning, of course, having to leave (6)

2 In mid-Ulster, turned round, having stretched one’s legs (8)

3 Was qualified to translate finer topic (10)

4 Appreciating that nurse had to blow the whistle (7)

5 On-line broadcast coming from brutal retreat (4)

6 It’s hard to name two former pupils coming round to associate with (6)

7 Fast line-out blows up (8)

14 Give quarter in revolution to the Conservative point of view (5,5)

16 Take not so much notice, when off guard (8)

18 Fashionable girl, we hear, in a roundabout way (8)

19 Not particular about comprehensive, in the main (7)

21 Attraction of a wind instrument, losing one by a leading light (6)

23 Sprouts spring up on a second stalks (6)

25 When in good shape, diver took off (4)

ACROSS: 1. Objective 9. Eureka 10. Languish 11. Dik-Dik 12. Thelma 14. Cleo 15. Final 16. Trivia 18. Lioness 21. Ordered 24. Athens 26. Poser 30. Oast 31. Twitch 32. Brazil 33. Glossary 34. Litter 35. At A Low Ebb.

DOWN: 2. Beachy 3. Engulf 4 .Taiwan 5. Vehicle 6. Junior 7. Bend Over 8. Backwards 11. Deter 13. Mine 17. Clean Bill 19. Of Health 20. Sisal 22. Drew 23. Uptight 25. Noised 27. Stroll 28. Ripsaw 29. Scarab