Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. One in five races may be Greek or Latin (7) 5. lie saves us losing a career by default (7)

9. Apostates from the Greens about to fade without a leader (9) 10. Nosey little Sarah did an about-turn first (5)

11. Abdominal pain returns when in council occasionally (5) 12. Not very willing to run cattle around (9)

13. To enlarge on a tale, bore spins it out (9)

16. It is hoped to make a linen surplice of it (5)

17. Greets one aboard with cutty and churchwarden (5) 18. Mended quarrel as to depth a cup replaced (7,2)

20. It could be a raven, but it sings (9)

23. Issue a club for the green lacking a head (5)

25. Horse-catcher as seen in a capital orchestra (5)

26. After dark, a wood may be a spot to drink in (5-4) 27. Fashionable dressmaker – and a modest one, perhaps (7) 28. An introduction to Inferno poet is moving in music (7)

DOWN

1. Old King about to overturn car takes a boat in Wales (7) 2. Abolish flower sown each year after a loss (5)

3. In the USA, CIA’s go at it may be wise (9)

4. Cried out for scrumpy (5)

5. Can take the knocks with silent ire maybe (9)

6. Of the sound non-u cousin can produce (5)

7. Dunce’s-hat out of which one emerges without harm (9) 8. Is linked to the departed when in the red (7)

14. A penny to despair of changing, though valued (9) 15. Apparatus with which to clean a pip out (9)

16. Tax he used in a way that used everything up (9) 17. Album up to providing nourishment for the mind (7) 19. Story to illustrate doctrine with plea to bar, in a way (7) 21. Is conversant with kiss the present is replaced by (5) 22. Settled opinion as to pup’s dam? (5)

24. Claw hooked on after one lost tail (5)