Cryptic Crossword - The Scotsman 31/05/13

Friday’s puzzle...

Across

1 Let stag suffer from psychological approach (7)

5 Prisoner of war is amazing in get-togethers (7)

9 Join queue at river for camp convenience (7)

10 Was left when last class entered (7)

11 Steaks used to smother memory of instruments (9)

12 Wander aimlessly at day-break (5)

13 Chap nearly admitting to sleep disorder (5)

15 Nothing puts off old man absorbed in mileage counters (9)

16 Slap youngster awake to bury the hatchet (5,2,2)

18 Reported pie initially eaten was flavoursome (5)

21 Irritates informers (5)

22 Neat Gipsy creation encapsulates their apocryphal ancestors (9)

24 Scotsman strangely bare and sinister (7)

26 Toff that is originally royal in former times (7)

27 I leave wholesale merchant more flexible (7)

28 Split up talking with CS spray, perhaps (7)

Down

1 Fete refreshments laid on for statuesque nymph? (7)

2 Record losing position of tennis player (3,4)

3 You may be out on one when lacking it as support (1,4)

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4 Binge they often had ere celebrating Hogmanay (3,3,2,3,4)

5 What to do at ATM to demand settlement (5,3,7)

6 Sound made by excited people, possibly, when playing one of these games (3)

7 Last longer than how breakfast television goes (7)

8 Puts one to sleep in grave at first seance (7)

12 Tides over with lists of specified food (5)

14 Chase away pains (5)

16 Airline ‘as rule about hats (7)

17 Said as introduction to resume on rent upper limit (2,5)

19 Coming to point where middle class inhabit old Chinese city (7)

20 Abandons merits (7)

23 Earth in sci-fi writing is Earth

re-formed with one different element (5)

25 Unit of sound as heard in campanology (3)