GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No. 28,266 set by Philistine

ACROSS

1,5 Charlotte races about in this? (7,7)

9 Copy of Two Thousand and One, with music finale (5)

10 Runs out of air? Oh dear! (9)

11 Supports bar locks (10)

12,21 Tie the knot after most excellent love is given (8)

14 Get some sleep before family calls for tableware (6,5)

18 See 3

21 See 12

22 Each letter is liberal (10)

25 An underground place of humiliation (9)

26 See 24

27,28 19 artist’s work to fade out ultimately, such a recipe for disaster (3,4,2,5)

DOWN

1 Meet something funny with B Ford (4,2)

2 NY Times singularly spreading hatred (6)

3,18 Celebrity passes what sounds like ambulance during a limo trip (3,7,6,5)

4 Range in the Arabian desert (5)

5 In train wreck, old Sophocles? (9)

6 Wrong to be suspicious with a promotion (4)

7 Pony went bust worth not much money (8)

8 Drive to evaluate Spooner’s lily pad? (4,4)

13 Are you, as they say, taken in by strong Arab commander leaving home course? (5,5)

15 Starts to put record straight about some current spoilers (9)

16 Endlessly going off on tirade is not clever (8)

17 Website tribute about the centre of Aleppo (4,4)

19 Life in Paris before Napoleon evacuated a capital city (6)

20 Scarcity put right inside 28 (6)

23 ‘Head off, bottom up’ as a slogan (5) 24,26 Surgeon’s first working rule: man, I like the aortic valve! (9)