| Clues across |
| 1 | Sabres out to break up the wreckers (9) |
| 6 | Creature found in tumbledown stable after first of lodgers has left (5) |
| 9 | Opera hidden in contralto’s cabinet (5) |
| 10 | Scot, possibly – or a Dutchman? (9) |
| 11 | Amid yard I upset this farm worker (9) |
| 12 | French nobleman returning thanks for old coin (5) |
| 13 | Laid back with first of smiling faces (5) |
| 15 | Composer returns, suppressing horrible moans, in hackney carriage (6,3) |
| 18 | One holding a chair makes poor serfs revolt (9) |
| 19 | Erato, say, has nothing inside computer accessory (5) |
| 20 | Drunk, stretched as far as possible (5) |
| 22 | Estimated price for job is something copied from a book (9) |
| 25 | Umpires in broken-down small sporty car (9) |
| 26 | Saint was long time around north (5) |
| 27 | Nymph in boring commercial (5) |
| 28 | Sent home temporarily and hanged (9) |
