Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 19/09/14

Friday’s puzzle...
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19/09/14

ACROSS

1 Carpets turn out more like concrete! (7)

5 Light ran somewhere to show horizontal beam (7)

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9 Waive opportunity to change lead and lie down (7)

10 Stop mat being arranged in part of ship (7)

11 Creases up when son does abs exercises (9)

12 Manage mother by holding back last letter (5)

13 Make vertical arrangement (3,2)

15 Wordplay on church attitude produces joke’s pay-off (9)

16 Buggy may put pressure on leader of meeting (9)

18 Churchman seen in tree (5)

21 Malevolent being adds number to protest (5)

22 In eastern frontiers, absence of finery is making one appear exalted (9)

24 Fashionable circle includes arm that is neither one place nor the other (2,5)

26 Swear I had five injections on getting joined up (7)

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27 Irish boy departs promptly, leaving capital of Eire behind (7)

28 Cadges money for bathroom equipment (7)

DOWN

1 Surprisingly, it’s spur to pedants (7)

2 Selection found right in bar (7)

3 Of birds taking a Roman road to the north (5)

4 Supper’s cheaper _ that‘s a challenge! (3,5,3,4)

5 STD cautions ruin for play with Roman general (5,10)

6 Snake that’s, like, quiet (3)

7 New York borough’s in a fit over Northern Ireland (6,1)

8 Mix up the name of gas (7)

12 It’s a chore to grind pigment (4)

14 Cooked canape’s missing a type of nut (5)

16 Dipping feet in water, left out something to take up space (7)

17 Member in marketing department offers representatives of his wares (7)

19 The sort of rain you can do without when in control of a car (7)

20 Is sorry to have initially ringed birds (7)

23 French sex symbol loses footing to Tibetan, 24 (5)

25 Low doctor has nothing to put on (3)