Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 23/07/13

ACROSS

1 Didn’t you hear me? I said, there’s something missing (7)

5 With change of lead, out-and-out so-and-so becomes mere mean sneak (7)

9 Caterer cooks for football spectators venue (7)

10 Father’s tomb seen on extreme right (7)

11 Objective: no-one should come back to home camp (9)

12 Balance method announced (5)

13 It’s pleasant to savour energy one day (5)

15 Action centred on small piece of land cut down to size (9)

16 Misplace map, arrive at Botticelli spring (9)

18 Pelts off, having dozed (5)

21 Are troubles revealing harking back to the past? (5)

22 List of shifts that can be turned round (9)

24 Real money reportedly collected by Commonwealth statesman (7)

26 Vocal tests after church for stately hymns (7)

27 Official to become very hot on a road (7)

28 Sculptor plays spinet after finishing sculpture (7)

DOWN

1 Arrests comic instead (7)

2 Ship platform on behalf of eccentric poet (7)

3 Concatenation of first letter in feature (5)

4 Compromise position which makes those people lazy and fat, with hungry dog roaming around (3,6,6)

5 The exact piece of journalism (8,7)

6 Commandos showing impertinence until stopped (1,1,1)

7 An individual dogged by fog becomes a sort of pagan (7)

8 Following initial duty, the CID are upset at being thrown out (7)

12 Fight back after whiskey to get food parcels (5)

14 He made very strict laws to do with motorists’ entry (5)

16 Buccaneers dismissed as tripe (7)

17 Gatecrash international? Ill-mannered (7)

19 I hear MacDonald’s logo has first big competition to get to grips with (7)

20 The original cause of sedition (7)

23 Instruments for retrieving singular haul (5)

25 Time to leave after BA finals (3)

Monday’s solution

Across: 1 Formulated, 6 Rich, 10 Red-letter, 11 Later, 12 Defend, 12 Natural, 15 Turns into, 18 Scion, 19 Nadir, 21 Gas-fitter, 23 Precise, 24 Salute, 27 Issue, 28 Tenacious, 29 Tidy, 30 Advantages.

Down: 1 Firm, 2 Ridge, 3 Useless, 4 Acted, 5 Erroneous, 7 Interdict, 8 Hardliners, 9 Plates, 14 Standpoint, 16 Redressed, 17 Neglected, 20 Ruined, 22 Illicit, 24 Santa, 25 Thong, 26 Isis.