Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 02/03/2012

ACROSS

1 Quick answers forthcoming concerning civil damage cases (7)

5 WW1 poet writing about military unit shortly (7)

9 Create impression in the air, but not in great detail (7)

10 Let soot ruin spanners etc (7)

11 Shaken at her bolt when getting engaged (9)

12 Make physical contact; producing initially the sound of pain (5)

13 Small change in US, put half back after offering old penny (5)

15 Revolting sailors are silenced where sound waves go, they say (9)

16 Drink said to relieve feigned suffering? (9)

18 Old photograph, perhaps, brought out to please pianist (5)

21 Records set in stone (5)

22 For replacement care, phone guardian (9)

24 Print units thus combined by artist (7)

26 Engineer who put gremlin into road (7)

27 Walked across grassland to front door (7)

28 Sections of bridge used instead of crossing out (7)

DOWN

1 Rode bus, or possibly Citizen’s sledge (7)

2 It’s hot mate — horribly so when split! (3,4)

3 Churchman’s not long in getting on the right side (5)

4 Will please or abracadabra answer? (3,3,5,4)

5 The problem lies in Yorkshire town — get it done and dusted (6,3,6)

6 It’s no place for musical organisation (1,1,1)

7 Arcane method of healing devised by former pupil? (7)

8 Marks on chest get sorted (7)

12 Was Glasgow gang gripping? (5)

14 Months pass in clans (5)

16 A pupil originally confined by instruments of punishment for producing fancy snacks (7)

17 TV prompter waiting at the tollgate, we hear (7)

19 Rouse to show it’s all right inside (7)

20 To-do lists get dropped into kitchen stoves (7)

23 From the library of former equal rights movement (2,3)

25 Father’s returned to trench (3)

Thursday’s solution

Across: 1 Protectorate, 8 About, 9 Remainder, 11 Shield, 12 Deferred, 14 Mainstream, 15 Apes, 18 Link, 19 Winchester, 21 Optimist, 23 Absorb, 25 Singapore, 26 Alert, 27 Ger rymander.

Down: 1 Provision, 2 Outclass, 3 Euro, 4 Temperance, 5 Railed, 6 Tudor, 7 Marshmallows, 10 Redistribute, 13 Brainstorm, 16 Potholers, 17 Verbiage, 20 Impair, 22 Tense, 24 Mean.