Crosswords Set by: Mercury Mon 15 Apr 2002 19.00 EDT Cryptic crossword No 22,495 Print | Accessible version Set by: Mercury Mon 15 Apr 2002 19.00 EDT Download the Guardian app for a better puzzles experience Download the Guardian app for a better puzzles experience Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Across 1 Late shop? (7,7) 5 See 1 (7) 9 Hermit endlessly rejected Indonesian buyer's furs (7) 10 Fruit supplier made love to cleaner in street! (7) 11 Increasing exercises, needing to run around (9) 12 Charming old lady caught embracing US soldier (5) 13 I reckon to retire with 100 to score (5) 15 One Parisian prepared to be stripped (9) 17 They show off flat and nurse shudders! (9) 19 Brown tin-opener, one intrinsic flaw (5) 22 When reversing car in, say a prayer (5) 23 Least tight, less loose (9) 25 Millions in club backed our embroidery (7) 26 State home help returns to North America (7) 27 Studying good girls may improve one's looks (7,7) 28 See 27 (7) Down 1 Guerrilla fed eight former members badly (7,7) 2 Good book for figures (7) 3 Get up around noon and wash (5) 4 Weariness of girl, one performing duet (9) 5 Spike has name in programme (5) 6 Modern university doctor admitted lying down (9) 7 Fruit in very big field (7) 8 Crying for subdued wear to topless bars? (7,2,5) 14 Food Colin cooked and Anne consumed (9) 16 Loathing pigs, Enid's going mad! (9) 17 See 1 (7) 18 Medical condition I mean to raise in Alcoholics Anonymous (7) 20 Top in frozen foods all over the polar regions (7) 21 See 8 (7) 23 Shoot second person, to be precise (5) 24 Monster water outlet conservationists overlooked (5)