CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,655

Across

1 Glib revolutionary’s plots (7) 5 Loudly upset about term used in Scrabble? It’s inventive (7) 9 Biting piece of fried potato (5) 10 A leopard nearly injured one loveless jumbo? (9) 11 Request popular vitamins with 50% off? Note: no returns (10) 12 Element’s piercing buzz in cooker (4)

14 New tennis player touching the man – to a smaller degree though (12)

18 Tiny scuffle involved restraining one adequately (12) 21 Almost flawless plan (4) 22 High price often reveals excellence (10) 25 Charmed editor after a short time with paper (9)

26 Cross Italy with speed (5) 27 Old tree left in front of yard (7) 28 They support layabouts getting browned off (7)

Down

1 Dine out? (6)

2 Criminal I’ve put in the nick (6) 3 Injection before the son is 21 (10)

4 Found second pastry (5) 5 Lost in mist – bad when two characters swap places (9) 6 King inclined to be fascinated (4)

7 Fancied one martini, initially? Edward’s after a drink (8) 8 Work out tax cut by the Queen (8)

13 Cook left rice on – something sent back (10) 15 Plunge upside down, softly – no good, obviously (9) 16 Guess this person’s coming into property (8) 17 Studied what could be achieved with new leader (8) 19 Attack island in craft (6) 20 French city displeases (6) 23 Back in house, daffodil loses colour (5) 24 Reasonable price by the sound of it (4)