Crossword No 10 (fifth series)

The words in five across lights – 1, 10, 11, 26 and 27 – have no clue,
but each can be classified as a 28. All may be found on a 15.

Clues across
1	See preamble (13)
9	Pale, like female bird (5)
10	See preamble (9)
11	See preamble (10)
12	Old Testament character hiding among the Saudi Arabians (4)
14	Collared Bad Ben, dodging about (6)
16	Robs dome to rebuild places for retirement (8)
18	Vegetable is shredded in cool crib (8)
19	Devise opening admitting air? (6)
22	Expel regularly from bogus site (4)
23	Game played with long, narrow piece of fabric and item from hearth (5-5)
26	See preamble (9)
27	See preamble (5)
28	See preamble (9,4)

Clues down
1	And here in Rome we find a moral code (5)
2	Fenced coin melted down to give self-assurance (10)
3	Toothed wheel suppresses noise in computer programming (6)
4	Disturb reservoir, losing five models of the solar system (8)
5	Mischievous demo fails to start (4)
6	Abandon broken cones for Scotch pancake (4-5)
7	My! Saul’s going wild in these places of refuge (7)
8	Guard in conflict over study (6)
13	Superb quiet instrument (5,5)
15	Reserve shown by quiet sprite – does he lurk on this ledge? (9)
17	Laundress employed by New York skyscraper? No, quite the reverse! (8)
18	Smoked herring found in straw hat around end of April (7)
20	Beat wig-maker deserting unusual high-water marks (6)
21	Sounds like a sneeze – do you need this? (6)
24	Rich Russian peasant drowned in Baku lake (5)
25	Reasonable market (4)