Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 17/07/15

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17/07/15

ACROSS

1 Repeatedly made one advance after another (5,3,5)

10 River Dove flows with intense activity (9)

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11 Conveyed kids to horse-riding holiday centre (5)

12 Tools for grinding in deepest lessons (7)

13 Feature includes north-south passage (7)

14 Streaked as hopes, alas, may be (6)

16 Relating to disposition of whole (8)

18 Players get a hold on movement of ball (8)

20 Each gets pastry in one spot (6)

23 Escape by a hair from result of labour dispute? (7)

24 Minors reporting in shorthand (7)

26 Get overwrought about losing top buttons (5)

27 Search ore for aggregate you hope will be a winner? (9)

28 This particular run goes through shopping centre with legal restrictions that are not obvious (3,5,5)

DOWN

2 Suppose that plague’s sickness is endemic (5)

3 Treat eluding solution ... (7)

4 ... in the course of which it’s mad to get involved (6)

5 Gutted in performance of two singing together (8)

6 First bus to be left in vehicle shed is rubbish (7)

7 No charge for accommodation on this poetic island (9)

8 Mostly stiff society girl entirely alien in group of classical dancers (5,2,6)

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9 Ten wise whales compose query: ‘So Queen Anne’s dead?’ (4,4,2,3)

15 Fire clergy, providing material for repentance (9)

17 State of winner in top form? Reverse (8)

19 Tales we hear on different levels (7)

21 Jug of water, perhaps, for baseball player (7)

22 A brief image Alex placed at the very top (6)

25 Protective clothing to be returned to Manor Park (5)