CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,393

Across

1 Thoughtless charge following popular Conservative spin (13) 9 Highest level of pay corporation rejected (3,6) 10 Ready after engineers work on renewal (5) 11 One way of broadcasting a source of danger in port (5) 12 What 15 do, we hear, in ceremony (4) 13 Island prisoner becomes object of veneration (4) 15 Authors showing attributes initially overlooked (7) 17 Break a saucer in pieces? (7) 18 Relation with a rarely empty store (7) 20 Competent head of state assassinated (7) 21 Exclude all inhabitants of home city (4) 22 Smile – spirit’s about right! (4) 23 Nothing left to cover fire (5) 26 Degree of intensity in effort to sell (5) 27 No parking for individual connected with joint (9) 28 Cleaner reprimands person in tears (6-7)

Down

1 Protesting sure changes those sharing special objectives (8,6) 2 Managed fish, eating gutted plaice (5) 3 Transport offered by limited circle within club (6,4) 4 Direction where nurses’ responsibilities lie? (7) 5 Reinvention of Cartier is unpredictable (7) 6 A wife getting lines wrong (4) 7 Left cafe excited about university producing the intended result (9) 8 Leader of movement’s regular support with regard to uprising (8-6) 14 Half of oxygen may produce such a shape (10) 16 It is clear playing is natural (9) 19 For example, a wagon must reverse a certain distance (7) 20 Boys welcoming a thankyou for compositions (7) 24 A depression mostly overcome by doctor’s lively dance (5) 25 Vehicle fuelled by hydrogen is cleaner (4)