Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 24/02/2012

Across

1 Building material that Leith, for example, is successful in getting to north-east (8,5)

10 It mangles, it mangles sinews (9)

11 I was in competition to be covered by creeper (5)

12 Company to list a part of flower (7)

13 Wailing woman forbids a bit of a laugh (7)

14 Provide girl with a fleet of ships, and ... (6)

16 ... back plan to equip with new weapons big-time (8)

18 Have something to eat, we hear, after concert — one containing a lot of information (8)

20 Frightens off with caress (6)

23 He toils laboriously with hate in his heart (7)

24 It’s best to choose a single mother (7)

26 Spanish wine found in South American city and in Germany? Yes (5)

27 Talentless paintings being exhibited in Scottish town (9)

28 Having learnt karate, dispense with lawyer (6,7)

Down

2 Essex town taken in by strong argument (5)

3 Suddenly understood the result of having eaten broken glass? (7)

4 Cancel a single entry in yearbook (6)

5 Did include skin when put out of action (8)

6 Weaker spirit, perhaps (7)

7 Be close to hour, being round about (9)

8 Terminal announcement at currency desk? (3,6,4)

9 Notice a term invested unexpectedly (13)

15 Some great goings-on at super supermarket (9)

17 A leading Tory cared who came (8)

19 Instructed that sails should be stowed in military unit (7)

21 Pet sees life in retrospect during brief dreamtimes (7)

22 Open space is not unusual (6)

25 Helmet all or partly made of steel, for example (5)

Thursday’s solution:

Across: 1 Representing, 9 Pretend, 10 Tackles, 11 Real, 12 Slack, 13 Fete, 16 Dithers, 17 Dragnet, 18 Experts, 21 Cockpit, 23 Tool, 24 Rival, 25 Halo, 28 Ruining, 29 Betters, 30 Entrepreneur.

Down: 2 Elegant, 3 Reef, 4 Saddles, 5 Noticed, 6 Inch, 7 Galleon, 8 Ostentatious, 9 Peradventure, 14 Heard, 15 Hatch, 19 Promise, 20 Shingle, 21 Chamber, 22 Plateau, 26 Hint, 27 Stun.