Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 05/10/12

ACROSS

1 Platform with steps said to be marvel (5,3,5)

10 Court officials give gratuities to workers with capital service (9)

11 Unworldly one in the body of the kirk (5)

12 Pure art may turn out to be the resurrection some hope for (7)

13 Chaplinesque clown seen in summer month, first of all in Eastbourne (7)

14 Well-lit result of filling with quantities of fuel, perhaps (6)

16 Wading birds attacked seabirds (8)

18 A number of group entered right into English county (8)

20 Disease that makes one bend like a snake (6)

23 A titter goes round when trying to measure concentration (7)

24 There’s nothing in sailing ship that’s extravagantly ornate (7)

26 Alternative computer item sent to circle round the earth (5)

27 Go along with note on the age of local store (9)

28 Leash means everything to Rover when he’s to have a miserable existence (4,1,4,4)

DOWN

2 Overturn hint at university (3,2)

3 Toggles used to drop fission bombs on aliens (7)

4 King whose cakes flared up (6)

5 Day taxi’s organised for having difficulty with physical movement (8)

6 Hotting up unlikely this evening (7)

7 Method of control more certain for one who accepts transferred risks (9)

8 I listen to IRA’s nonsense about radical cleansing (13)

9 Don’t give up when claim can be staked in the land of Peter Pan (5,3,5)

15 Schedule forces son to miss recitation of “once two is two”, for example (9)

17 Bog originally covered in grass was cordoned off again (8)

19 Produced a response: created hell! (7)

21 Lance or cut open type of graft in the eye (7)

22 Former pupil has for some time been not exactly square (6)

25 Drink by virtue of being very strong (5)

Yesterday’s solution

Across: 1 Gets across, 6 Laic, 10 Airport, 11 Maudlin, 12 Pageants, 13 Morse, 15 Choose, 17 Befriend, 19 Exercise, 21 Benign, 24 Nairn, 25 Headland, 28 Lies low, 29 Clamber, 30 Yeti, 31 Adolescent.

Down: 1 Grab, 2 Tornado, 3 Adore, 4 Rating, 5 Semester, 7 At large, 8 Contending, 9 Submerge, 14 Screenplay, 16 Secondly, 18 Eschewed, 20 Eminent, 22 Ignoble, 23 Parcel, 26 Loads, 27 Brat.