| Clues across |
| 1 | Remove undergarment and steal away (4,3) |
| 5 | Daft, upset about that man – a stupid person (7) |
| 9 | Fuss about worship (5) |
| 10 | Hens, perhaps, which prey on garden pests (9) |
| 11 | Called out former assertion to editor (9) |
| 12 | Bird, westbound, held in iceberg’s grip (5) |
| 13 | Sulphur, oxygen, lithium and deuterium – a list that’s reliable (5) |
| 15 | He sells the latest information and fresh slander, initially, to a chap (9) |
| 18 | They don’t stop heartless boy following non-English passengers (7-2) |
| 19 | Bare island holding tyrant leader in captivity (5) |
| 21 | Clear off, taking odd characters from secure army (5) |
| 23 | So the referee has mineral (9) |
| 25 | Drawing medium provided by kind Ian in confusion (6,3) |
| 26 | Carriers revealed in ultraviolet ray scan (5) |
| 27 | Toothy smile given by the German – he wears things down (7) |
| 28 | Favourite’s most expensive (7) |
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| Clues down |
| 1 | Ragged streaks seen on the ice (7) |
| 2 | I call for help: “Celeste has note missing – special type of triangle needed” (9) |
| 3 | Nothing very big for last character (5) |
| 4 | Office centre regrets making fine threads (9) |
| 5 | Lost colour, being badly deaf, then died (5) |
| 6 | Slides over snow to swamp, then snag turns up (9) |
| 7 | Weird result from dumping Ecstasy in lake (5) |
| 8 | Fall of the French coin (7) |
| 14 | Take a number of sheets of paper – between 500 and 50 – and afterwards write down this imaginary place (9) |
| 16 | Falsely deny wreck, with the head twisted round (3-6) |
| 17 | Lay flags upside down, then deliver speech and vanish into thin air (9) |
| 18 | Overtaking – providing a job for undertaker? (7) |
| 20 | Breaks saint’s knee in assembly (7) |
| 22 | Girl in bad atmosphere making spokes (5) |
| 23 | One making an effort in German city (5) |
| 24 | More than usual pulled out of next race (5) |
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