Guardian Cryptic #28833

2022-08-11

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Across

1a

Exercise you must do to get higher with lift (5,2)

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5a

Composer in debt took on too much (7)

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9a

Antelopes put back in container, when picked up (7)

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10a

Declare old partner's demand for alimony (7)

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11a

Try twice to swallow vitamin for painful condition (9)

12a

Complete fool when forgetting name (5)

13a

Chaucer's first poems, which need deciphering (5)

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15a

Master in a hurry becoming new resident of hospital (2-7)

17a

Financier on cocaine makes a chilly impression (4,5)

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19a

Teacher turning to take on very loud musical pieces (5)

22a

Ordered apprentice inside to make a sword (5)

23a

Put a leper through treatment that's going on for ever (9)

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25a

Awkward suitor bearing ring is causing trouble (7)

26a

Quiet by perimeteruntil one shows up! (7)

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27a

Confederate arresting work unit causes a reaction (7)

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28a

Contract makes cheat switch son for daughter (7)

Down

1d

Chirpy redhead devastated by such a victory, perhaps (7)

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2d

Stone delivered from them by cockney messenger (7)

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3d

Informer provides material for insider trading (5)

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4d

Not quite top drawer coder is showing off (9)

5d

OECD chief explodes at national leaders as this rises? (5)

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6d

Meet with French chap upset about matter he ingested (9)

7d

One forced to join upthat sounds chilling (7)

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8d

Black mark put me into same boring old spin (7)

14d

Erect foundations to accommodate old actors' entrance (5,4)

16d

Loser paid for breaking into two camps (9)

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17d

Colder than Coventry for those sent into isolation? (7)

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18d

Where Frankfurter might be found doing well? (2,1,4)

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20d

Turfed out when retaining information that's productive (7)

21d

Rangers are part of what leads press to reveal overspending (7)

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23d

Share rating at upper limit? That's annoying (5)

24d

Pathogen that turns up regularly in gill pouches (1,4)