DAILY BRAIN TEASERS

Across 1 Problem jazz fan picks up in gossip (8)

9 Four articles about medium’s curse (8)

10 Worry about appearing in business paper (4) 11 Working with stars, fool collects prize (that’s right) (12) 13 Engineer gets best clothes for chemical plant (8)

15 Shed small amount of light on tea that’s stewed (4-2) 16 Simple plant found in several gardens (4)

17 Group popular in the Nineties touring East being less happy (5)

18 Give out ecstasy in front of Cambridge college (4) 20 Reconnoitring with a view to breaking cover (6) 21 Achieve success through Republican Party ties (2,6) 23 Planes in navy crashed somewhere in USA (12) 26 Good message to departed stagehand (4)

27 Report of events from all directions found (8) 28 Strongly criticise directors’ salary? (8) Down

2 Renegade caught by Henry makes a bloomer (8)

3 Italian Trot, a revolutionary dictator? (12)

4 Travel at speed damaged outside of limousine (6)

5 Mexican food cheers company (4)

6 Composer with uplifting part for one unaccompanied (8)

7 TV cook endlessly found in food shop (4)

8 What one may do during cheese course or entree? (8)

12 Theatre worker, a star that’s upcoming caught by surprise (5,7)

14 Canadian singer-songwriter, no longer this? (5)

16 Single-handedly captures international gangster (2,6)

17 Someone scary ravaged money bag (8)

19 Person hard to satisfy that is boxing former boxer (8)

22 Colour in a kind of statistical chart a small digit (6)

24 Pond creature wife caught in appropriate item (4)

25 Division of Novotel (4