CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,600

Across

1 Books for famous steam trains based here? Fools ride so excitedly (4,2,5)

10 Learner within corps kept in the dark (5)

11 Putting the accent on it, plies her trade (9)

12 As partners, going off work in principle (9)

13 Worker I caught in prank (5) 14 Cleaner polished off and quit (6)

16 Entertainer cultivated ad income (8)

18 Cleaner old Lib-Dem is fascinating (8)

20 Father collars Republican – he does go on (6) 23 Accoutrement somewhat fantastic (5)

24 Lain out absorbing promise in president’s first speech? (9) 26 A nice urn’s smashed – this might help to replace it (9) 27 It’s exciting – perfect maybe (5) 28 A neat player fouled somewhere close to goal (7,4)

Down

2 Concentrated attack thus brings in victory the French held up (5)

3 Beg for space outing? (7) 4 Groovy kind of light is legendary (6)

5 Offering old boy nothing in the way of classical language (8)

6 Cause astonishment in old forces’ sweetheart with energy (7)

7 Monarch exercising quainter voice (5,8)

8 Detective tightly controlling precinct (8)

9 1’s railway boss stays perhaps (3,10)

15 Pure eating is correct (8) 17 A fashionable American soldier’s turned up, succeeding in getting badges (8)

19 Tennis player – you could see me once with head of racket broken (7)

21 Great at being at sea? Then this is for you (7)

22 Obvious protection for inventor (6)

25 Register cooker (5)