Crossword No 14 (second series)

Clues across
1	Bond, say, could be reputedly always happy (7)
5	Game insect (7)
10	Powder to sprinkle on lion, perhaps, returning to devour first of lambs (4)
11	Alter a mascot for heraldic device (4,2,4)
12	Squire hears also-ran holding run-throughs (10)
13	Smack insect flying back (4)
14	Is twice in the river (4)
16	Spa has route leading to unknown water treatment (10)
18	Want employment to retain the French? This project will need sewers (10)
19	Perch from central Europe (4)
20	God is represented by wildfowl with no place for odd characters (4)
22	A nasty moment ere this spins in the wind (10)
25	Run off with one friend? It’s within the law (10)
26	New-look cast does this on stage (4)
27	It may be running over the rails or lying under them (7)
28	Milliners making threats? (7)

Clues down
2	Stone a number attending the game (5)
3	Ironed – shrunk? (9)
4	Happen to put small volume of liquid in our . . . (5)
6	. . . rhizome, upsetting stork and coot (9)
7	Service landing in court shows skill (5)
8	Space-men come to grinding halt, discovering source of cheese (9)
9	Totter? Banged a Norman – sent tottering (3-3-4-3)
15	Rush seen before spring – a wild flower (9)
16	I hate meat, minced, when it’s blood-red like this (9)
17	Vehicle carrying fruit, often said to be upset (9)
21	Port turns up in the French river (5)
23	A precious stone – nothing more – turned over by Greek character (5)
24	Steer awkwardly into compound (5)